My code is written twice for uncomprehensible reasons

Question

This code is written in C++ and for reasons that I don\'t quite understand it is written twice. I would expect that after inputting a random char it would display the char once

Answer 1

as everyone already mentioned, cin will append the newline marker \n every time you hit enter. another solution is to place cin.ignore(); after every cin.get();.

#include 

using std::cin;
using std::cout;
using std::endl;

int main()
{
    char letter;

    letter = cin.get();
    cin.ignore();
    while (letter!= 'X')
    {
          cout<