string input problem

[lap]

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    string address;

    cout << "Enter you address" << endl;

    getline(cin,address,'\n');
        //with a delimiter specified
        //getline(cin,address,'\n');

    cout << "You are residing at " << address << endl;

    return 0;
}

this is a piece of code i got from http://cplus.about.com/library/weekly/aa030702a.htm.

When I tried out this code, I entered:

555 Elm St.

then hit enter.
Nothing happens after i hit the first enter.
I hit enter again for a 2nd time...
the output finally comes out: " You are residing at 555 Elm St."


How do i fix it so that I only have to press enter once? I tried specifying the delimeter to be \n but same results occurred.

[jgbauman]

The code work perfectly with g++ 3.3.1. What compiler (and standard library) do you use? VC++ had a bug in getline in an older version.

[lap]

just found out that visual c++ 6.0 has a bug with getline...how annoying

[Tracer]

wtf? How homosexual is that? This must be rectified immediately...

P.S. Is there anyway to "fix" this, or like, some kind of workaround?

[OgreCoder]

I remembered doing this fix several years ago as a student so I found it again. Here is what you have to do:

getline()

The getline function that is supplied in the string library requires the user to hit enter twice (not fun). This can be fixed by editing line 165 of the file: c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Include\STRING

Line 165 should be:

_I.rdbuf()->sbumpc();

instead of:
_I.rdbuf()->snextc();