If your code looks like this:
char name[1000];
int age;
for (;;) {
cout << "Name: ";
cin >> name;
cout << "Age: ";
cin >> age;
}
What you really want is:
for (;;) {
cout << "Name: ";
cin >> name;
cout << "Age: ";
cin >> age;
cin.ignore(INT_MAX, '$\backslash$ n');
}