need help cin.ignore and strings

[alex55]

i need to write a program that takes this style of input

Enter customer name: Kristopher Ann#Nugent

and seperates the name to look like this

Customer name: Nugent, Kristopher Ann

so far i have decided to separate the name into 3 separate character strings but i can only get two of them to store

char first[255], middle[255], last[255];
  float quantity, price, total, discount_total, final;

  cout << "Enter your name in First Middle#Last format.";
  cin >> first;
  cin >> middle;
  cin.ignore(1, '#');
  cin >> last;

[alex55]

so i guess what i need to do is to create a flag in the input to stop when it hits the "#" if anyone knows how to do that i would be very grateful because my way isn't working

[WaltP]

Look at the getlin() method.

[alex55]

I'm lookin at some of that stuff but still struggling could you maybe show me some syntax