Help with Vector input/couting

[jlewallen18]

Hello, I am 3/4 weeks into programming curriculum, so this should be a relatively easy question! I am trying to write a program that counts specific words that a user inputs "Howdy/howdy/Whoop/whoop" (yes I go to Texas A&M, hence those specific words haha ) I am having an issue where it wont count the first word even if it is "Howdy"

For example if I put it:

"Howdy howdy whoop Whoop" - it only outputs that it counted 3 words

now if I were to do:

"Hello Howdy howdy whoop Whoop" - it would count 4.

Where did I go wrong? Thank you for any help!!

//Jordan Lewallen
//ENGR 112 - 512
//February 4, 2014
//hw2pr3.cpp

#include "std_lib_facilities_4.h"

int main(){
	
	cout << "Please enter desired words, when you have entered all words, please type CTRL+d (EOF Command)\n" << endl; 
	//It was assumed that EOF command was going to be used here hence the necessity of 'CTRL+d'
	
	vector<string>words;
		string the_word;
		cin >> the_word;  //when the desired words are entered, the if loop will catch those and enter them into the vector
		while (cin >> the_word)
		if (the_word == "Whoop" || the_word == "whoop" || the_word == "Howdy" || the_word == "howdy"){
			words.push_back(the_word); //pushing the words into vector
			}
		cout << "Number of desired words: " << words.size() << endl; //displays the number of specific words that needed to be counted

		return 0;
}

[Philip Nicoletti]

You have:

cin >> the_word;  //when the desired words are entered, the if loop will catch those and enter them into the vector
while (cin >> the_word)
{
 // etc.
}

The first cin reads the first word that is entered.

[jlewallen18]

You have:

cin >> the_word;  //when the desired words are entered, the if loop will catch those and enter them into the vector
while (cin >> the_word)
{
 // etc.
}

The first cin reads the first word that is entered.

Fixed it, and everything works. Thanks for your help!