Strings and ways to get input in C++ - c++

Question

currently I'm working on something that takes in a user input file and makes a linked list of object pointers(4 separate files). While working on a function called lookup which traverses a linked list to see if a title that is passed in is inside of the linked list, I noticed that all of my titles stored are 1 character longer than they shoulder be. For example, in my case of looking for "Spaces VS Tabs" (18) I go and call tempPtr->getTitle() in my lookup function in vlist.cpp and then get the length of that. It returns a length of 19 and I'm really confused on this. To be clear, it's the titles that are stored in the objects that are of abnormal length; you can look in the main.cpp for how I got them.
So far I've been using a weird amount of cin.ignore()s to get my input so I feel it might be that. Other than that, I have no idea how an extra character is being added to my titles.
main.cpp
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
#include "vlist.h"
#include "video.h"
int main()
{
string firstLine, secondLine, thirdLine, userPreference;
float fourthLine;
int fifthLine;
VList list;
string lookUp = "Spaces Versus Tabs";
cin >> userPreference; //Why do I need two cin.ignore()'s after this? WHO KNOWS?!
cin.ignore();
cin.ignore();
while(cin.peek() != EOF) {
getline(cin, firstLine);
getline(cin, secondLine);
getline(cin, thirdLine);
cin >> fourthLine;
cin >> fifthLine;
cin.ignore();
cin.ignore();
Video * tempVid = new Video (firstLine, secondLine, thirdLine, fourthLine, fifthLine); // Assign object
list.insert(tempVid);
}
list.lookup(lookUp);
return 0;
}
vlist.cpp
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
#include "vlist.h"
VList::VList() {
m_head = NULL;
}
VList::~VList() {
Node *ptr = m_head;
while (ptr != NULL) {
Node *temp;
temp = ptr;
ptr = ptr->m_next;
delete temp;
}
}
void VList::insert(Video *myVid) {
m_head = new Node(myVid, m_head);
int occurance = 0;
Node *ptr = m_head;
Node *staticPtr = m_head;
Video *tryingToAdd = staticPtr->m_vid;
while (ptr != NULL) {
Video *tempPtr = ptr->m_vid;
//Look for title, if you find it, occurance ++
cout << tryingToAdd->getTitle() << endl;//This only works if I have << endl; at the tail of it. Why?
if(occurance > 1) {
cout << "Couldn't insert video <" << tempPtr->getTitle() << ">, already in list.";
return;
}
ptr = ptr->m_next;
}
}
void VList::length() {
//ADD IN A CHECK FOR EMPTY LIST HERE
int lengthCounter = 0;
Node *ptr = m_head;
while (ptr != NULL) {
lengthCounter++;
ptr = ptr->m_next;
}
cout << lengthCounter << endl;
}
void VList::lookup(string title) {
bool isInList = false;//Saftey check
Node *ptr = m_head;
while (ptr != NULL) {
Video *tempPtr = ptr->m_vid;
string compareMe = tempPtr->getTitle();
cout << compareMe.length() << " - " << compareMe << endl;
if(title.compare(compareMe) == 0) {
tempPtr->print();
}
ptr = ptr->m_next;
}
if(!isInList) {
cout << "Title <" << title << "> not in list." << endl;
cout << title.length() << endl;
}
}
void VList::remove(string title) {
bool isInList = false;//Saftey check
Node *ptr = m_head;
while (ptr != NULL) {
Video *tempPtr = ptr->m_vid;
string compareMe = tempPtr->getTitle();
if(title.compare(compareMe) == 0) {
//REMOVE CURRENT VIDEO
}
ptr = ptr->m_next;
}
if(!isInList) {
cout << "Title <" << title << "> not in list, could not delete." << endl;
}
}
void VList::print() {
Node *ptr = m_head;
while (ptr != NULL) {
Video *tempPtr = ptr->m_vid;
tempPtr->print();//Prints ALL information for a single video
ptr = ptr->m_next;
}
}
vlist.h
#ifndef VLIST_H
#define VLIST_H
#include "video.h"
class VList
{
public:
VList();
~VList();
void insert(Video *myVid);
void print();
void length();
void lookup(string title);
void remove(string title);
private:
class Node
{
public:
Node(Video *myVid, Node *next) {
m_vid = myVid;
m_next = next;
}
Video *m_vid;
Node *m_next;
};
Node *m_head;
};
#endif
video.cpp
#include "video.h"
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
Video::Video(string title, string URL, string comment, float length, int rating) {
vidTitle = title;
vidURL = URL;
vidComment = comment;
vidLength = length;
vidRating = rating;
}
void Video::print() { //Print entire video object information
cout << getTitle() << endl;
cout << getURL() << endl;
cout << getComment() << endl;
cout << getLength() << endl;
cout << getRating() << endl;
return;
}
video.h
#ifndef VIDEO_H
#define VIDEO_H
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
class Video
{
public:
Video(string title, string URL, string comment, float length, int rating);
int getRating() {
return vidRating;
}
float getLength() {
return vidLength;
}
string getTitle() {
return vidTitle;
}
string getURL() {
return vidURL;
}
string getComment() {
return vidComment;
}
void print();
private:
string vidTitle, vidURL, vidComment, vidPreference;
float vidLength;
int vidRating;
};
#endif