Thread: How to fix this

Listen i'm trying to get it to spell my friends first name and i don't know why but it won't take more than one character as a value for "cin>>"

Code:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    float a;
    cout<<"Okay alex this is where I begin using C++";
    cin.get();
    
    
    cout<<"Please type your name:";
    cin>> a;
    cin.ignore();
    
    cout<<"Your name:" <<a<< "\n";
    cin.get();
}