Limitting User Input

[doomsweek]

Is it possible to "limit" how many characters a user can input in a program?
Eg. A user can only input upto 5 characters, after 5 characters, a user has only two choices.
Pressing the return key or erasing one or more characters to replace them. I hope you're getting my point. XD

Something like this on HTML:

<INPUT TYPE=text NAME=mic_test SIZE=15 VALUE="Test" MAXLENGTH=10>

[zacs7]

Yes and no, with something like a curses library you could.
Check out PDCurses or ncurses.

[doomsweek]

Not possible with the libraries that came in with dev-cpp ?

[robwhit]

you can't control the input, but you can control how many characters are accepted into the program with the width specifier.

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/c...dio/scanf.html

[siavoshkc]

For a console program you can use <conio.h> and use getche() or _getche(). Or you can use an API.

[robwhit]

fyi, conio.h is not standard C.

[zacs7]

Use PDCurses/ncurses over conio.h!
Mainly because it's more portable and supported across an array of compilers.