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I'm very, very new to coding. Thought I'd start with C++, which I've been writing for about 3 days. In order to teach myself, I've been using a mix of Sololearn, Hackerrank and writing a Text-Based Adventure Game.

Herein lies my issue.

I'm in the process of writing start-scenarios for the 3 playables in my project. These are within separate if statements, with any decisions within those being nested if statements. To include character health, all of this is within a single while loop, which is true while Health >= 1.

However, I'm having a strange issue where, when selecting one of the 'options' (nested if statements below 'Orc'), when ran, it outputs more than one option, then repeats all text from character creation, up to that point, once.

This only happens when the if statement is a string. If I change the code so that there is no string for "Item", and set "Bucket", "Rug", and "Bars" as int 1,2,3, it works as I would expect it to. Is this an issue with strings in C++?

I have researched everything I can think of, including usung getline instead of cin for numerous cin statements, in case that was causing the issue, and yet no joy.

Please find my code below. Have I missed something? Also, being almost completely new to this, is there a better way in which I could do this?

Finally, please note that only the 'Orc' segment works correctly if you feel the need to run it to get a better idea of the issue that I'm having - 'Human' and 'Elf' currently create infinite loops because I haven't written far enough into them to break the while loop yet.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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