Thread: Check this code for pausing program

Hi!

I'm using this code for a program I got from the tutorials here:

#include <iostream.h>
int main() //Most important part of the program!
{
int age; //Need a variable...
cout<<"Please input your age: "; //Asks for age
cin>>age; //The input is put in age
if(age<40) //If the age is less than 100
{
cout<<"You are pretty young dude!"; //Just to show it works
}
else if(age==40) //I use else just to show an example
{
cout<<"You are old"; //Just to show you it works...
}
else
{
cout<<"You are really old"; //Executed if no other statement is executed
}
return 0;
}



What would I add to make it pause the program?

Thanks!!

Jordan

system("pause");

You must #include <stdlib.h> or <windows.h> if I'm not mistaken

use Sleep( int milliseconds ) found in <windows.h>.
Dead simple

It doesn't get much simpler than that.

I don't remember there being a pause program/command for UNIX. Remember that system() is essentially an interface with the command line. EDIT: I am not saying that system() will not work with UNIX (it will work b/c it is ANSI standard) but the problem lies in the fact that there is no pause program/command that you could send to the UNIX shell that will pause the program.

There is a function for UNIX programming that is called pause() (in unistd.h). If you checked environment variables and did conditional compiler directives (#ifndef, ifdef, etc.) then you could include unistd.h in a UNIX environment and conio.h/windows.h for a windows environment.

Good luck