A question about getline

Could someone tell me what can be wrong with
my vc++ installation?
when I use getline as for example:

getline(cin,name,'\n');

I have to press twice ENTER.
Why is that?

and also, how do I use flush? what is the working of it?
what is what it does? When do I need it, and when I don't?

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Originally posted by jriano
Could someone tell me what can be wrong with
my vc++ installation?
when I use getline as for example:

getline(cin,name,'\n');

I have to press twice ENTER.
Why is that?

and also, how do I use flush? what is the working of it?
what is what it does? When do I need it, and when I don't?

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Flushing can be done automatically with std::endl. I think there's also an ostream that flushes only.

That is a bug in getline in the STL implementation.
Here is the fix Kilck