Why wont the program let me keep inputting

[NovaBp]

why wont the program let me input a value for amount?

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
string date, payee, account_holder;
int amount;
cout<<"Date: ";
cin>>date;

cout<<"Payee: ";
cin>>payee;

cout<<"Amount: ";
cin>>amount;

cout<<"Account Holder: ";
cin>>account_holder;




return 0;
}

[Peter87]

What input are you giving the program?

[NovaBp]

when it asks for date i input a date for example: 12/25/17
then it asks for the payee so i imput for example: lewis E Smith
then the program outputs: Payee: Account Holder:
then the programs ends

[Peter87]

The >> operator will only read one word so payee will get the value "lewis", but " E Smith" is still left in the buffer for the next input operations to read, so when the program tries to read the amount it fails because "E" is not a valid integer.

If you want to allow the payee to contain multiple words you might want to use std::getline.

cin>>payee;
getline(cin >> ws, payee);

[NovaBp]

Thanks!