using cin and strings

I am writing a program where the user needs to input a string. The problem is that the first word in the string always gets cut off and a space stays. Here is my code:

Code:

//a class has been created and a new variable called var is also present
//name is of type string
while(selection != 0){
	//some menu display
	cout<<"Please choose an action: ";
	cin>>selection;
	
	switch(selection){
	    case 1:
               cout<<"Name: ";
		cin>>name;
		getline(cin, name);
		var.addname(name);
		break;
	    //some other cases down here
      }
}

for example, if I enter name John Doe, then the String name contains " Doe" instead of the whole name. How can I fix my code to fix this?

thanks

Get rid of the 'cin >> name' line.

That line assigns the string 'John' to name, but then when you use getline it writes over the top of it with ' Doe', therefore the string name then contains ' Doe'.

At least that's what it looks like to me :P

oops

thanks for the quick reply

After you make that fix, be careful when mixing operator >> and getline. The newline in the stream from the 'cin >> selection' will cause the getline call to put nothing into the name field. You have to ignore() the newline character after the cin >> call.