Looping and inputing

I have just started to learn C++, and am trying to make a O's & X's program to test what I have learned from the tutorials here.

My problem is that after the first input line, every other input line is outputed twice, here's the problem code:

Code:

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void game()
{
  char place[2], piece='O';
  int x=0, y=0;
  draw_board();

  while(!win())
  {
    cout << endl << piece << " enter a position>";  // this is the line outputed twice
    cin.getline(place,3,'\n');
    switch(place[0])
    {case 't': x=0; break;
    case 'm': x=1; break;
    case 'b': x=2; break;
    default : x=3;
    }
    switch(place[1])
    {case 'l': y=0; break;
    case 'm': y=1; break;
    case 'r': y=2; break;
    default : y=3;
    }
    if(x!=3 && y!=3)
    {
      board[x][y]=piece;
      chg_plr(&piece);
      draw_board();
    }
  };
}

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can anyone offer an idea why the line is printed twice?:confused:

if you wish to see the rest, it is included as an attachment (I know that win isn't properly coded yet, I just used that temporarily)

The program crashed with me because you have there char place[2] but the user usually enters two characters and '\0' is added to the end. char place[3] fixes that problem.

Thanks for that, I wonder why Visual C++ didn't spot that

Actually it's because cin.getline(place,3,'\n'); can't know how big the passed buffer is. In C++ you can also use std::strings:

// #include <string>
std::string place;
std::getline(std::cin,place);

what's a std::string, I've never seen that before