Can't seem to get cin.getline to work help please?

Question

Trying to get cin to input to the array, I have the correct header for it but whenever I run the cin part it just skips it and does nothing, I want it to be able to cin a line of text with the spaces.

char a[2000];
cin.getline(a, 2000);
questionsArray[y] = a;

edit: this is within a switch statement although can't see how it would affect it?

Answer 1

Generally speaking, std::getline is the better choice, as it works on std::string directly:

#include <string>   // for std::string, std::getline()
#include <iostream> // for std::cin

// ...
std::string a;
std::getline( std::cin, a );