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

On which compiler did you try this? I tried on VC2008 and worked fine. If I compiled the same code on g++ (GCC) 3.4.2. It did not work properly. Below is the versions worked in both compilers. I dont't have the latest g++ compiler in my environment.

int n;
cin >> n;
string local;
getline(cin, local); // don't need this on VC2008. But need it on g++ 3.4.2. 
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
{
    getline(cin, local);
    cout << local;
}