Thread: counting seconds

How do I make my program to count secods... something like a timeout?
12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ... and then something happens..

But how do I make it to show the numbers ?

Thank you in advance!

Code:

#include <iostream>
int main ( ) {
    for ( int i = 10 ; i >= 0 ; i-- ) {
        cout << i << " " << flush;
        sleep( 1 );
    }
    return 0;
}

The sleep function is whatever your compiler / OS combination allows for sleeping for a second.

I believe the FAQ has some ideas

It ain't work... "sleep" undeclared identifer

As Salem said...

>>>
The sleep function is whatever your compiler / OS combination allows for sleeping for a second.´
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... this does tend to be compiler/OS specific. To acheive this with VC++ for example you would use Sleep(1000); with a capital S and in milliseconds. I think Borland use wait().