Getline ignoring first character of input

Question

I\'m just starting with arrays in C++ and I\'m having a problem getting the first character of an array.

This is my code,

1- I enter a name, such as \"Jim\"<

Answer 1

I had this piece of code with the problem that it was eating the first character after the first cycle (first cycle was ok)

do{
    cout << endl << "command:> ";
    string cmdStr1="";
    cin.ignore();
    getline(cin, cmdStr1);
    cout << "cin= " << cmdStr1 << endl; //For Debuging
    //...more code here
}while(1);

Output was:

command:> pos

cin= pos

command:> pos ... from 2nd loop it started to delete the 1st character

cin= os

...

If "cin.ignore();" was commented then it resulted in a "segmentation fault":

command:> cin=

Segmentation fault

Solution working for me:

To move the "cin.ignore();" line just before the do-while loop.

cin.ignore();

      do{
            std::cout << endl << "command:> ";
            std::string cmdStr1="";
            std::getline(std::cin, cmdStr1);
            std::cout << "cin= " << cmdStr1 << endl; //For Debuging
            //...more code here
    }while(1);

Output was:

command:> pos

cin= pos

command:> pos

cin= pos

...

...

P.S. It was incredible hard to put code here... I am disappointment to continue collaborating.