Skipping Over Initial Prompt (Do/While)

fish692 (16)
At the end I give the user the option to rerun the program or exit it. I set up a do/while loop and it sort of works except it prompts straight away the name and id i.e. it skips over the name input a user can give.

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string name, idNumber, gradeLetter;
    int grade;
    char answer;
    
    do
    {
    cout<< "••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••"<<endl
    <<"\tWelcome to Grade Estimation Program\n"
    << "••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••"<<endl<<endl
    <<"Please Enter your Name (LastName,FirstName): ";
            getline(cin, name);
    cout<<"\nPlease Enter you 7 Digit ID: "; //prompting for id
        cin>>idNumber;
    while (idNumber.length()!=7) {
     cout<<"\nPlease Enter you 7 Digit ID: ";
        cin>>idNumber;
    }
    for (int grade = 0; grade <= 0 || grade >100;){
        if (grade <= 0 || grade > 100) {
            cout<<"\nPlease Enter a Score Between 0 and 100: ";
            cin>>grade;
        }
        if (grade >=90){
              gradeLetter= "A+";
          }
          else if (grade >=85 && grade < 90){
              gradeLetter= "A";
          }
          else if (grade >=80 && grade < 85){
              gradeLetter= "A-";
          }
          else if (grade >=70 && grade < 80){
              gradeLetter= "B";
          }
          else if (grade >=60 && grade < 70){
              gradeLetter= "C";
          }
          else if (grade <60){
              gradeLetter= "F";
          }

          if (grade>0 && grade<101) {
            cout<<"\nBased on the "<< grade <<" "<<name<<"("<< idNumber <<")" <<" will likely get "<<gradeLetter<<endl;
              }
        cout<<"\nWould you like to exit the program?(y/n): ";
        cin>>answer;
       }
    } while (answer=='n' || answer=='N');
    cout<<"\nThank you for using the Grade Estimation Program!"<<endl;
ne555 (10692)
probably a '\n' was in your input buffer
to discard it you may use getline(cin>>ws, name);
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/istream/ws/
fish692 (16)
Worked thanks!
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