[Dev-C++] OK, here's another stupid question....................

[Dany P. W. <da...@qu...>]

They always say "There are no such thing as stupid questions, just
plenty of inquisitive idiots" but here it goes........

I'm still a complete beginner in C++ and programming in general. I've
written yet another silly little code to get used to the syntax and
arrays. I was going to use parallel arrays but so far have only tried to
use a single array. Something is causing me problems. The "while" loop
ignored the first "index" value of 0 and jumped to the second value of 1
before executing the commands within that loop. I've tried using a "for"
loop with no success either.

Can someone try this out and tell me what I've missed? Much
appreciated...........

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>

#define TAB '\t'

main()
{
    using namespace std;
    
    //Define how many planets there are
    int MAX;
    cout << "Enter the number of planets: ";
    cin >> MAX;
    //Define max length of planet names
    int LENGTH;
    cout << "Enter max length of planet names: ";
    cin >> LENGTH;
    cout <<"There will be " << MAX << " planets" <<endl;
    cout << "Each will be " << LENGTH << " chars long" <<endl;
    LENGTH = LENGTH + 1;
    
    //Define the 2 arrays, planet names and distances
    char name[LENGTH];
    char planet[MAX][LENGTH];
    int distance[MAX];
    int DIST;
    int index = 0;
    
    while (index < MAX)
    {
        cout << index << endl; //I put this in here to show that it
skipped the value 0
        cin.getline(name,LENGTH);
        strcpy(planet[index],name);
        index++;
    }
    
    index = 0;
    
    for (index = 0; index < MAX; index++)
    {
        cout << endl << planet[index] << endl;
    }
    
    system("PAUSE");
    return(0);
}
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