Question

struct car
{
  string name;
  int year;
};    

int main() {
    int noOfCars;
    cout<<"enter no_ of cars : ";    
    cin>>noOfCars;    
    car* cars = new car[noOfCars];    
    for(int i=0;i<noOfCars;i++)
    {
        cout<<"Car #"<<i<<endl;
        cout<<"Name : ";    
        getline(cin,(cars[i].name));  //here is the problem 
        cout<<"\n year : ";    
        cin>>cars[i].year;    
        cout<<endl;
    }
}

something wron with taking a whole line as a string input to the name in the strcut,doesn’t even take any thing and proceeds to ge the year directly … :S ???

it works with cin,but i want to take a whole line !
and it works with strings globally defined,but not with this inside the struct

Answer 1

Insert cin.ignore( 1000, '\n' ); after getline .

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

struct car
{
  string name;
  int year;
};    

int main() {
    int noOfCars;
    cout<<"enter no_ of cars : ";    
    cin>>noOfCars;    
    car* cars = new car[noOfCars];    
    for(int i=0;i<noOfCars;i++)
    {
        cin.clear();


        cout<<"Car #"<<i<<endl;
        cout<<"Name : ";    
        getline(cin,(cars[i].name));  //here is the problem 

     cin.ignore( 1000, '\n' );

        cout<<"\n year : ";    
        cin>>cars[i].year;    
        cout<<endl;

    }
    return 0;
}