My Program bypasses cin

[gibran]

The program executes the first "cin", but then by passes the next one. When i change the data type to a float
it works well but i want 'char' data type not float.
please HELP



#include <iostream>
using namespace std;


int main()
{
char momname, dadname;

cout<<"Enter your mom's name:";
cin>>momname;

cout<<"\nEnter your dad's name:";
cin>>dadname;
return 0;
}

[BlackDeath]

"char" type represents a SINGLE char. What you want for storing names is a string, so you should also add #include <string> and change the type of momname and dadname variables from "char" to "string".

[Darapisal]

"char" can only contain one character last. So if you want char can contain more than one characters, you
should declare your variable like this:

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char momname[20], dadname[20];