getline not working properly ? What could be the reasons? [duplicate]

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Since you have not posted any code. I am going to take a guess.

A common problem while using getline with cin is getline does not ignore leading whitespace characters.

If getline is used after cin >>, the getline() sees this newline character as leading whitespace, and it just stops reading any further.

How to resolve it?

Call cin.ignore() before calling getline()

Or

make a dummy call getline() to consume the trailing newline character from the cin >>

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