Need Help With Begginer C++ Code I have written

Question

I have written the following code, there is more i plan to add to it FYI, however an online compiler seems to have a probelm with the first line of code it processes that and I can put in the unit but it then won’t process the rest of the code properly it just skipts straight to the end, if i take this line out the rest of the code works fone.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int m;
cout << "Enter Measuring Unit (mm or metres)\n";
cin >> m;
int a;
cout << "Enter Hieght \n";
cin >> a;
int b;
cout<< "Enter width \n";
cin >> b;
int area;
area = a*b;
cout <<area;
int c;
cout << "\nEnter Depth/Thickness \n";
cin >> c;
int vol;
vol = area*c;
cout << vol;
return 0;
}

Answer 1

First you are asking for the measuring unit.
But the code is expecting an int, not a char or string.

Answer 2

Yes the int input is only for integers.

Answer 3

thankyou for the help

Answer 4

sorry im not sure what this means exactly, is the ‘int’ input only for numbers, as i an determining this so that further in the code when calculating the weight i can use an if statement to choose the right value for a denisty, is there anyway you can see i can do this

Answer 5

https://www.sololearn.com/learn/CPlusPlus/1623/