cin.getline() doesnt work

Question

i was writing a long peice of code for a text based adventure game and i came across anwsers with more than 1 word, so i used:

char irrev[256];
cin.getline(irrev, 256);

and the blasted thing wont function like the normal cin would operate, i noticed it works with other files except specifically the one im writing at this moment.

Answer 1

use gets(irrev);

Answer 2

it doesnt work it still wont let me type anything as if there was no "cin", but for some reason the normal cin command works fine, is it a bug in my IDE?

Answer 3

cin.getline("hello workd")