really bizarre.. compiler skipping gets()...

[Hirosh]

I really have no clue of what's going on, so here's part of the code

void Queue::showMenu(){
     int choice;
     do{
     cout <<n<<"This program will add people into a line and then retrieve them in the first-in first-out order."<<n;
     cout <<"If you want to check the line, type 1.\nIf you want to add someone into the line, type 2.\nIf you want to take the first person out of the line, type 3.\nIf you want to delete someome from the line, type 4(-1 to quit):\n-> ";
     cin >> choice;
          if(choice==-1){
                     break;
                     }
          else if(choice==1){
                         cout <<n;
                         q1.showLine();
                         break;
                         }                      
          else if(choice==2){
                         cout<<n<<"Please, type in the person\'s name:";
                         gets(str);
                         break;
                                            
                         }
          else if(choice==3){
                         q1.moveLine(*Line);
                         break;
                         }
          else if(choice==4){
                       
                         q1.deleteFromLine(str);
                         break;
                         }
                         
     }while(!*str);
}

Well... I have not finished writing the programme yet, but look right here...

          else if(choice==2){
                         cout<<n<<"Please, type in the person\'s name:";
                         gets(str);
                         break;
                                            
                         }

when the programme is actually being run it skips gets(str); and finishes... but if I wrote gets(str);gets(str);... or do{gets(str);}while(!*str); it would work...
but even though, this is really bugging me, could someone explain me why it is doing that?

thanks!

[tabstop]

Because it's doing what you told it to do. gets reads up to the first enter-key/carriage return/new line/what have you. The first enter-key that it sees is the one directly after the 2 that you typed in, and so it's mission has been accomplished.

[laserlight]

The reason is that this leaves a newline in the input buffer:

cin >> choice;

This newline is then read by the call to gets().

Now, you should not be using gets(). Rather, use a std::string object with std::getline(). This would still result in the same problem, which you can solve by using cin.ignore() to ignore the newline left in the buffer.

[Hirosh]

oh, I got it ... thank you both!.... I just couldn't figure that out :P