How to make it read cin twice?

Question

I have this bit of code:

... 
ComplexNumber C1;
ComplexNumber C2;

cout << "Enter a complex number C1:" << endl;
cin >> C1;
cout << C1 << endl;
cout << "Enter a complex number C2:" << endl;
cin >> C2;
cout << C2 << endl;
...

but as I've discovered it won't wait for user input the second time and will simply leave C2 with the default value I've defined for the zero-arg constructor in the ComplexNumber class and move on.

All the solutions I've found to this issue use getline() instead of cin >> , but this assignment is to test how well we've overloaded the opperator >> for our ComplexNumber class, so I think using getline would defeat that purpose. Is there another way to make this work?

EDIT: @Martin you were correct! It works after I changed my operator>> to:

istream & operator>>(istream & in, ComplexNumber & n) 
{
    int inreal=0;
    int inimag=0;
    in >> inreal;
    char plus;
    in.get(plus); // read the plus sign since it's a char
    in >> inimag;
    char i;  // DID NOT HAVE THIS LINE AT FIRST
    in.get(i); // DID NOT HAVE THIS LINE AT FIRST
    n = ComplexNumber(inreal,inimag);
    return in;
}

Thank you so much!

Since I'm new to the forum I don't know how to give credit to a sub-comment; is it okay if I just give the green check to the one official reply on this post?

Answer 1

You need to clear cin. It's reading in the 'enter' from the previous cin.

cin.clear();

And I also remember doing something along the lines of:

cin.ignore(cin.rdbuf()->in_avail());

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Answer 2

I bet you did not read the i character from the input stream