I am doing an assignment for school and I am using an array filled with the ICAO words alphabet. The user enters a letter and then the program displays what ICAO word goes with the letter provided. I am using an index variable to get the ICAO word from the ICAO array. However I need to check that the user only enters a single letter to go into the char input variable. How can I do this? Below is what I have but is not working correctly. It reads the first letter and spits out the result from the first letter, then closes right away.

```
int main()
string icao[26] = 
"Alpha",
 "Bravo",
 "Charlie",
 "Delta",
 "Echo",
 "Foxtrot",
 "Golf",
 "Hotel",
 "India",
 "Juliet",
 "Kilo",
 "Lima",
 "Mike",
 "November",
 "Oscar",
 "Papa",
 "Quebec",
 "Romeo",
 "Sierra",
 "Tango",
 "Uniform",
 "Victor",
 "Whiskey",
 "X-ray",
 "Yankee",
 "Zulu"
};
int index;
char i;
cout << "Enter a letter from A-Z to get the ICAO word for that letter: ";
while(!(cin >> i))
{
    cout << "Please enter a single letter from A-Z: ";
    cin.clear();
    cin.ignore(1000,'\n');
}
i = toupper(i);
index = int(i)-65;
cout << "The ICAO word for " << i << " is " << icao[index] << ".\n";

cin.get();
cin.get();
return 0;

```

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***I figured it out from a little of each of the answers. The solution is below:***

```
int main()

//store all the ICAO words in an array
string icao[26] = 
{"Alpha",
 "Bravo",
 "Charlie",
 "Delta",
 "Echo",
 "Foxtrot",
 "Golf",
 "Hotel",
 "India",
 "Juliet",
 "Kilo",
 "Lima",
 "Mike",
 "November",
 "Oscar",
 "Papa",
 "Quebec",
 "Romeo",
 "Sierra",
 "Tango",
 "Uniform",
 "Victor",
 "Whiskey",
 "X-ray",
 "Yankee",
 "Zulu"
};
int index;
string input = "";
cout << "Enter a letter from A-Z to get the ICAO word for that letter: ";

// get the input from the user
cin >> input;
//get the first character the user entered in case the user entered more than one character
char input1 = input.at(0);
//if the first character is not a letter, tell the user to enter a letter
while (!isalpha(input1))
{
    cout << "Please enter a letter from A-Z: ";
    cin >> input;
    input1 = input.at(0);
    cin.clear();
}
//capitalize the input to match the internal integer for the characters
input1 = toupper(input1);
index = int(input1)-65;
cout << "The ICAO word for " << input1 << " is " << icao[index] << ".\n";

cin.get();
cin.get();
return 0;

```