ok, so I am back here struggling with beginner's stuff.
this is the question: when I prompt the user for some input, e.g.:
int number;
cin >> number;
what can i do for trapping input errors, for example the user inputting a type of data which is different from the variable the program is waiting for? (some chars instead of an integer value or the like)
thanks in advance
There are two ways of doing this.
1) look into cin.good(),cin.fail(),cin.clear()
2) get all input as a string using cin.getline and parse the string.If you need to covert to numbers there is atoi() and atof() to do that.
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...or make your own input-function. Perhaps you want to prevent the user from typing in more than say 10 letters. I don't think you can do that with cin/scanf.
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