function wont take user input, skips getline

Question

My function is supposed to take user input in a temporary character array before validating it and copying it into a classes data member. Problem is, whenever the program reaches getline, it seems to ignore it and go to the end of the function definition. Not exactly sure why it's acting like this.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21567291/why-does-stdgetline-skip-input-after-a-formatted-extraction — chris, Apr 04 '14 at 03:50

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 04 '14 at 04:24

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You are probably getting this error due your assign operation at your if statement.

if (desc[0] = '\0') {

should be:

    if (desc[0] == '\0') {
         //do your code here
}

edited Apr 04 '14 at 04:24

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answered Apr 04 '14 at 04:02

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 04 '14 at 04:01

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Adding is.ignore() before the call to is.getline(desc, 61) fixes the problem

answered Apr 04 '14 at 04:01

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function wont take user input, skips getline

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