How to get both a line and an integer in a program?

[mohamad mahtabi]

I don't know how can I get both a line and an integer in a program

for example take a look at this simple code:

string s;
int x;
cin >> x;
getline( cin , s );
cout<< s << x ;
 

the program ignores the getline.
how can I solve the problem?

[horace1]

what happens is the '\n' <RETUIRN> character entered after you entered the value of x is left in the input stream and read by the getline() as string s.
you need to remove the '\n', e.g. use cin.ignore()

cin >> x;
std::cin.ignore(1000, '\n');
getline( cin , s );

the cin.ignore() will read up to a 1000 characters or until '\n' is found and extract them.

[mohamad mahtabi]

thank you a lot.