validate userinput

**justdoit22** · 12-28-2003

Hello ppl
im trying to get user input using getline. i give this statement

while (true)
{
if (!getline(cin, string, '/'))
{
cout<<"invalid input"<<endl;
continue;

}

this program keeps on getting input until i give '/' in cin.

Question:
is there anyway if i dont give '/' and give anyother input and it should give me an error that it was a valid input(should have / at end)...

currently it doest give the error and keeps on getting input even if i hit enter unless i give it '/' delimitor.

Code:

while (true)

**Prelude** · 12-28-2003

>currently it doest give the error and keeps on getting input even if i hit enter unless i give it '/' delimitor.
It sounds as if you really want to read a line of input and then check that the line is terminated with a slash character:

Code:

string s;

while ( getline ( cin, s ) && s[s.length() - 1] != '/' ) {
  cerr<<"Error: Input must end with '/'\n";
  // Other stuff
}

**justdoit22** · 12-28-2003

thanx man it works....
wondering i couldnt think of it earlier.. perhaps new @ programming
thanx again

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