Stupid newbie question

[CompiledMonkey]

I'm playing around a little bit in c++ and I'm using the console. However, I need the console to stay open after my program finishes its run. What do I need to add to do this?

[Thantos]

FAQ

[CompiledMonkey]

Thx!

[big146]

FAQ

LOL...Tthantos and his FAQ.

[electRONix]

I checked the FAQ, here's another solution works well for windows console applications with C++... I'm not quite sure about its specifics but I'm pretty sure you need to include stdlib...

#include <stdlib.h>

and have this before you return in main..

  system("PAUSE");

[Thantos]

actually it would be better as:

#include <cstdlib>

But of course thats covered in the faq in which I quote:

A poor-mans method of using system(), OS specific.

#include <stdlib.h> 

int main(void)
{
  system ("pause");
  return(0);
}

And I give FAQ links for several reasons:

1) To remind people they are there
2) Because often they explain better than I can
3) Its faster and there is less chance of someone beating me

[joeyzt]

Try

cin.get()  or.....

#include <conio.h>  and

getch()