cin is skipping a line

Question

Here's a segment of code that I am working on:

std::cout << "Enter title of book: ";
std::string title;
std::getline(std::cin, title);
std::cout << "Enter author's name: ";
std::string author;
std::getline(std::cin, author);
std::cout << "Enter publishing year: ";
int pub;
std::cin >> pub;
std::cout << "Enter number of copies: ";
int copies;
std::cin >> copies;

Here's the output from this section when it is running (added quotes):

"Enter title of book: Enter author's name":

How do I fix this so that I can enter in the title?

Answer 1

I think you have some input before that you don't show us. Assuming you do you can use std::cin.ignore() to ignore any newlines left from std::cin.

  std::string myInput;
  std::cin >> myInput; // this is some input you never included.
  std::cin.ignore(); // this will ignore \n that std::cin >> myInput left if you pressed enter.

  std::cout << "Enter title of book: ";
  std::string title;
  std::getline(std::cin, title);
  std::cout << "Enter author's name: ";

Now it should work.