GetLine

**PJYelton** · 11-11-2002

I'm using MSVC++ and am getting this problem: I'm asking the user to enter a string that may or may not contain a space using the following code:

Code:

	string city, team;
	cout<<"What do you want the city name to be? --> ";
	getline(cin, city);
	cout<<"What do you want the team name to be? --> ";
	getline(cin, team);

The problem is that the user has to press the enter key twice and I'm not sure how to avoid that. I've tried using cin.sync() and cin.ignore(100, '\n') before and after the getline, but they don't work. The program works fine, whatever the user enters before the first enter goes into the string, and nothing is recorded if anything is entered BETWEEN the first and second enter. Anyone know what I can do to fix this?

**gamer4life687** · 11-11-2002

use char.

Code:

#include<iostream>
#include <conio.h> //for my compiler
using namespace std;
int main()
{
char city[100]; //max of 100 character for city
char team[100]; // max of 100 team characters

cout<<"What do you want the city name to be? --> ";
cin.getline(city,sizeof(city));
cout<<"What do you want the team name to be? --> ";
cin.getline(team,sizeof(team));

getch(); // for my compiler
return 0;
}

try it , i did and it works

**PJYelton** · 11-11-2002

Thanks, but I'm trying to do it without char arrays and instead using strings. Number of reasons for this, most notably because its for a big project spanning 15 files that is 99% written and I don't want to go back and change everything!

**ripper079** · 11-11-2002

Ahhhh, I had this probelm once too.

Check in this
http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showt...getline+return

and se what Prelude says.

Haha a bug!!! Make a search on google and you will find the answer. If I remember it right you have to modify a header-file

.

**PJYelton** · 11-11-2002

Thanks, I'll do that! Geez, between this and the friend bug, I'm getting tired of all these MSVC++ errors!

**Eibro** · 11-11-2002

The exact URL is http://support.microsoft.com/default...EN-US;Q240015&

**PJYelton** · 11-11-2002

Thanks for the help! Bug has been fixed!

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