why the getline function isn't recognizing it as a string?

Question

There is a pointer struct named children, and within it there are these two pointers, name and age.

employees[i].children[j].name = new string();
employees[i].children[j].age = new int[1];
cout << "WRITE THE NAME OF THE DEPENDENT " << j+1 << endl;
getline(cin,employees[i].children[j].name);

This is giving me this error: no matching function for call to 'getline(std::istream&, std::string*&)'

Answer 1

The name field is a pointer to a string. You need to use:

getline(cin,*(employees[i].children[j].name));