Why would the addition of an 'if' statement makes the program skip the getline

[tempneff]

This program works fine if I don't use a if/else or switch. I am sure it has to do with the getline() function. When I switch to cin>> it works with the if/else; but I need the getline() because I want to include white space.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

int main () {
char menu;
cin>>menu;
if(menu=='a'){
string message;
ofstream code;
char coder;
cout << "Please enter full name: ";
getline (cin,message);
code.open("code.txt");
for (size_t i=0; i < message.length(); i++){
coder=message.at(i);
code<<(int)coder;
code<<" ";
}
code.close();
}

return 0;
}

[Peter87]

You really should learn to use indentation. It makes it much easier to read the code.

Have you read my answer I wrote earlier today? http://cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/60177/#CH_i325008