Allowing User Input with Whitespace?

Question

I'm trying to get user input for a function. The following code works, but not when there is a space between words.

string cityNew;
string cityPrevious;
cout<<"Enter a city name:"<<endl;
cin>>cityNew;
cout<<"Enter a previous city name:"<<endl;
cin>>cityPrevious;
comNet.addCity(cityPrevious, cityNew);

I've attempted using getline(cin,cityNew) but this causes both cout statements to print before allowing for the user to input anything.

For the most likely reason see my answer to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35246732/class-functions-are-hit-are-miss-when-it-comes-to-working-even-though-they-are-t. — R Sahu, Feb 10 '16 at 05:47

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 10 '16 at 05:51

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I think there is a line break('\n') which hasn't been read in your input, so the first getline() will read an empty string.

Add cin.get() before the first getline() might be helpful.

answered Feb 10 '16 at 05:51

DDoSolitary

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