problem with gets()

I am having a strange problem when prompting the user for input. When I try to use gets() it seems to skip over a piece of my code. For example:

char in_line[100];

cout<<"Enter your string: ";
gets(in_line);


If I used this code if would not print Enter your string. It would simply skip over it and wait for user input. I am very confused to why this is happening. If anyone has any ideas please help. Thanks

have you tried

Code:

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cin.getline(data,x)

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. i think it's in <ctype.h>. but I don't know much, i'm learning myself.

strange.. i used to have the same problem while using
cin.getline(), thus i changed to gets().

maybe use : cin.ignore();