Again, see "Flushing" the input stream
Again, see "Flushing" the input stream
Originally Posted by Adak
I think you're making mountans out of molehills right now.
Prelude's articles tend to be complete. I don't think that means input is an insurmountable problem. A lot of detail goes into working with wide streams, and fixing other weirdness such as what happens if there is no input waiting in the stream when you ignore. These details are not relevant all of the time. I could plan my input so that such special cases never occur.
Additionally, I would handle EOF all of the time, sure, but that's well defined in the standard.
I merely pointed out that it's not always so "simple," to just put some cin.ignore() statements in well defined points in the code, as the article seems to indicate.
That was initially my point anyway !
And you turned my simple correction into a debate. I didn't have any problem with what you said other than what I quoted. Fixing the stream state is easy, after which you'd call some version of ignore_line() from the article. After reading the article, of course.
