Thread: getline problem

I dont know if the problem is the way I use getline.
If I run this little program, it is supposed to read a string, a number...5 times, but it does not, after the second atepmt,
the program goes crazy.
I tried a fix I was given (STLFix), and still doesn't work,
I found an article in microsoft to solve the getline bug, but
I can't find where to fix it, how do I get to the header to
change it ?
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q240015

anyway, this is the little program, it is getline or the program
the one that doesn't work?

Code:

#include<iomanip>
#include<iostream>
#include<string>
using namespace std;

main()
{
	string str;
	int num;
	for(int i=0;i<5;i++){
		cout<<endl<<"String ";
		getline(cin, str, '\n');
		cout<<"Number ";
		cin>>num;
	}
	return 0;
}

thank you if you guys can be VERY explicit with your guidelines.

Well, first of all, main is defined to return an int. So, it's int main not just main.

Try adding a cin.clear() and a cin.ignore(80, '\n'). This will clear the error state and ignore any left over characters in the input buffer. I'm assuming that the program is skipping the input. Is this correct?

yes, it pretty much does it, thank u, the cin.clear doesn't
seem to affect the program though. Only one thing, the
first time I still have to press enter twice.

Originally posted by jriano
I dont know if the problem is the way I use getline.
If I run this little program, it is supposed to read a string, a number...5 times, but it does not, after the second atepmt,
the program goes crazy.
I tried a fix I was given (STLFix), and still doesn't work,
I found an article in microsoft to solve the getline bug, but
I can't find where to fix it, how do I get to the header to
change it ?
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q240015

anyway, this is the little program, it is getline or the program
the one that doesn't work?

Code:

#include<iomanip>
#include<iostream>
#include<string>
using namespace std;

main()
{
	string str;
	int num;
	for(int i=0;i<5;i++){
		cout<<endl<<"String ";
		getline(cin, str, '\n');
		cout<<"Number ";
		cin>>num;
	}
	return 0;
}

thank you if you guys can be VERY explicit with your guidelines.

It's on line 165 (god why do I remember this) of the string header file. Change snextc to sbumpc. You can easily open the file by clicking on the #include <string> directive and selecting "open document string" or something similar.