getline() a string giving difficulty

Question

i am doing a task where i am inputting ist no of times you want to have input and then i am inputting a full line by the use of getline but sime how i am not able to do that

Answer 1

You are mixing formatted input and unformatted input functions.

operator>> leaves the trailing newline after the number you extracted in the input buffer, but this isn't a problem for subsequent reads done with operator>> because it skips all the whitespace it finds before reading. On the other hand, getline reads until it finds the delimiter (\n by default) without skipping anything.

Long story short: if you want to use getline you have to clean the buffer from the \n after your cin>>test;:

#include 
// ...

cin>>test;
cin.ignore(numeric_limits::max(), '\n');