Is there a better way I could be receiving this input? C++ - c++

Question

Currently just trying to edit some basic input to get rid of a singular '.' at the beginning of a line.
However, this only functions when I force EOF. My submission review for this assignment on the uni site seems to be getting stuck in the while loop and not outputting the result. The amount of input can be up to 1000 lines and I can't seem to think of how I could best receive this input without it getting stuck like this. main.cpp below:
Example input and output would be:
Input:
..hello
.hello
hello
Output:
.hello
hello
hello
#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <cstring>
using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
string inputLine;
vector<string> vect;
string s;
string temp;
while (getline(cin, s)) {
vect.push_back(s);
}
for (int i = 0; i < (int)vect.size(); i++) {
temp = vect[i];
if (temp[0] == '.') {
for (int k = 0; k < (int)temp.length(); k++) {
temp[k] = temp[k + 1];
}
}
vect[i] = temp;
}
for (int j = 0; j < (int)vect.size(); j++) {
cout << vect[j] << endl;
}
return 0;
}

Answer 1

The tester of your program is probably opening a pipe and waiting for your program to output the first line before sending the second. A case of dead-lock.
If you want to ignore the . character you can use std::basic_istream::peek to check if the line starts with this character and then simply std::basic_istream::ignore it. You may also want to flush your output for each line, using std::endl will do.
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
int main() {
std::string line;
while(std::cin) {
if(std::cin.peek() == '.')
std::cin.ignore();
if(std::getline(std::cin, line))
std::cout << line << std::endl;
}
}