Thread: text input buffer clearing

If I use cin and cout for text I/O, it appears that sometimes
if you have two cin commands after each other it appears that
the input buffer isn't empty and the second cin command is ignored
(because of a "leftover" carriage return or something in the buffer)

I know that cin.get(); can fix some of these problems but if there
is nothing in the buffer then it waits for a carriage return.

So basically the thing I need is something that checks the buffer,
deletes the things in it if anything and then just lets the program
proceed that nothing has happened...

Check out cela's first post:

http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showt...ing+cin+buffer

Code:

if (!cin)
    {
      cin.clear();

      while (cin.get() != '\n')
      {}

      continue;
    }

Is it this you mean?

Thats the one.

Thanks! I'll test it... ...Tomorrow *yawn* clock is 22.24