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[lauweikin]

why it skipped the first input?

  #include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
	char name[51][100];
	int a;
	cin>>a;

	for ( int i = 0; i < a; i++ )
	{
		cout << "\nEnter sentence: ";
		cin.getline( name[i], 99 ); //this null-terminates the array of chars by placing a '\0' at the end of the stream
	}

}

[Torm04]

What exactly are you trying to do? You might need to post a little more information for help.

[lauweikin]

sorry, just let a= no. of sentence, but it skipped the first input sentence if i run that.
just want to know where's the prob

[HatchetMan302]

Trying adding a cout statement to tell you that you need to input a number for a. Also you may want to flush your input buffer since you are using getline. Here is what I would do in that for loop:

cin.ignore(cin.rd_buf()->in_avail());
cin.getline(name[i], 99);
cin.clear();
cin.ignore(cin.rd_buf()->in_avail());

If you go over the bounds for the getline, that extra stuff will be pushed into the next input line, so use this to prevent that.