Using getline with cin

[abrowning]

Hi. I am trying to get input as a string and when I do this code segment:

string artist;
cout << "Enter the artist of the album you wish to delete ->";
getline (cin, artist);
it displays the prompt but then "Press any key to continue" and exits the program. iostream.h is included. Am I using getline incorrectly?

[Philip Nicoletti]

You probably are doing a "cin >> somevariable" before that, which
leaves the new-line character in the stream buffer.

See : http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=439902

[Lindley]

Usually this happens because there's already a \n in the stream from a previous cin >>.

[Hermit]

Also, it needs to be said: there's no such header as iostream.h in the C++ standard library. The correct header is iostream, no extension.

[abrowning]

The problem was the extra \n from a previous cin. It's working now. Thanks!