Question

I am prompting the user to enter data regarding cars. The Do…while() loop I am using works fine the first time, then does not work properly after the first time. The code is bellow, and I am using Dev-C++. Thank you for your help and time.

#include <iostream>
#include<conio.h>
#include<cstring>
#include<fstream>
#include <iomanip.h>


using namespace std;

int main()
{

  char manufacturer[16], model[16], year[10], miles[10], car_cost[12];
  char response;
  ofstream OS ("usedcars.txt", ios::out);
  cout<<"for each car please enter :"<<endl;

  do
  {
    ofstream OS ("usedcars.txt", ios::app);
    cout<<"The manufacturer: ";
    cin.getline(manufacturer, 16);
    cout<<"The model: ";
    cin.getline(model, 16);
    cout<<"The year: ";
    cin.getline(year, 8);
    cout<<"The miles: ";
    cin.getline(miles, 8);
    cout<<"The cost of car $: ";
    cin.getline(car_cost, 10);

   OS << manufacturer << setw(9) << model << setw(8) << year << setw(11)<< miles << setw(8) << car_cost << endl;
  cout<<"Do you want to continue?";
  cin>>response;

 }
 while (response!='n');  


  return 0;  
}

*******the outpu of the program********

for each car please enter :
The manufacturer: Toyota
The model: corolla
The year: 2005
The miles: 123,000
The cost of car $: 7,999
Do you want to continue?y
The manufacturer: The model: Honda
The year: Civic
The miles: 67,850
The cost of car $: 9,200
Do you want to continue?n

***usedcars.txt**************

Toyota  corolla    2005    123,000   7,999
    Honda   Civic     67,850   9,200

Answer 1

I suppose you press enter after entering the ‘y’ for response. But you only read in one character which is y. So the ‘\n’ gets passed to the next read which is your Manufacturer. Thus there is no data there.

As stefaanv writes use cin.ignore. An interesting bit on this can be found here: Clearing cin input: is cin.ignore not a good way?