Getline keeps on getting newline character. How can I avoid this?

Question

Basically I first takes an integer as input and then test case follows. My each test case is an string. I am suppose to print the string back if the starting patten of string matches "HI A" and it is case-insensitive. I wrote the code below to accomplish to this. My problem is that when I press enter after each input, getline takes newline character as new input. I have tried to tackle this by using extra getline after each input but the issue is still there. Program gets stuck in the loop even though I have put a break condition. What am I doing wrong?

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main(){
    int N;
    cin >>N;
    string nl;
    getline(cin,nl);
    for (int i=0;i<N;i++){
        string s;
        getline(cin,s);
        //cout <<"string"<<s<<endl;
        int flag=0;
        if ((s.at(0)=='h'||s.at(0)=='H')&&(s.at(1)=='i'||s.at(1)=='I')&&(s.at(2)==' ')&&(s.at(3)=='a'||s.at(3)=='A')) flag=1;

        if (flag==1) cout << s;
        //cout << "not " <<s;
        string ne;
        cout << "i="<< i<<endl;
        if (i==N-1) {break;}
        getline(cin,ne);

    }
}

Here is sample input:

5
Hi Alex how are you doing
hI dave how are you doing
Good by Alex
hidden agenda
Alex greeted Martha by saying Hi Martha

Output should be:

Hi Alex how are you doing

Answer 1

ignore() function does the trick. By default, it discards all the input suquences till new line character.

Other dilimiters and char limit can be specified as well.

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/istream/istream/ignore/

In your case it goes like this.

    cin >> N;
    cin.ignore();