setting istream states question
I've got a problem with setting the state of various istreams in my programming. I'm supposed to input a value into a stream and then set the stream state to bad if the value is incorrect. Then I have to clear out the stream and reset it to the good state. Can anybody tell me what functions in the istream class do this? Any help would be appreciated.
cin.fail() to test for the stream state and cin.clear() to set a stream state.
The default argument for cin.clear() is ios::goodbit which will remove the fail state. If you want to manually fail the stream then you want cin.clear(ios::badbit). However, input of an incorrect type will automatically set ios::badbit (inputing a char where an int is expected).
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