fflush and getline

[Magnus]

I've found that I need to call fflush(stdin)after using
getline(cin, temp, '\n') before I can use the next getline function.

This means that I must hit return twice before I can enter the next line
of text. Why is that and is there a way around it?

Thanks,

Magnus

[Danny Kalev]

this is a bug in the VC++ iostream library. However, you shouldn't use
fflush(stdin). Try cin.sync(); instead or intersperse the cin and cout
operations so that after each getline call, you have a cout<<
expression. This will force a cin buffer flush.

Danny

Magnus wrote:
>
> I've found that I need to call fflush(stdin)after using
> getline(cin, temp, '\n') before I can use the next getline function.
>
> This means that I must hit return twice before I can enter the next line
> of text. Why is that and is there a way around it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Magnus