std::getline does not work inside a for-loop

Question

I\'m trying to collect user\'s input in a string variable that accepts whitespaces for a specified amount of time.

Since the usual cin >> str does

Answer 1

My guess is that you're not reading n correctly, so it's converting as zero. Since 0 is not less that 0, the loop never executes.

I'd add a bit of instrumentation:

int n;
cin >> n;
std::cerr << "n was read as: " << n << "\n"; // <- added instrumentation
for // ...