that part just means that if you hit enter without entering in any values or characters or anything, it will be invalid input as well. cin >> f1 won't catch you if you just hit the enter key. it just waits for more input. so you need that extra check (cin.get() != '\n') to see if the user just hits enter.
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Basically it reads in the float. Then it reads in another character. If it isn't a newline character (meaning it's read in the entire buffer up until the user pressed enter) it will loop. Eliminating this "2.5345asad" from not returning an error. But as 7stud noted, this "423.324 a" will return an error because the extraction operator stops at all whitespace including spaces.Code:while (!(cin >> f1) || cin.get() != '\n') // while - when cin reads f1 it returns true OR when cin retrieves a character and it's not a newline - loop
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OR, read the next char, and state whether it is not equal to '\n'.But what is the literal translation of adding this portion of code to the while loop?
Code:|| cin.get() != '\n'
When a user enters data like this:
13.5
and then hits return, an invisible '\n'(which is a newline character) is added to the end of the input. So the input looks like this:
13.5\n
The result of Daved's statement is that if the user enters some data like this:
13.5a\n
the 13.5 will be read into the double variable successfully, but since the next character is not a '\n', the data will be deemed invalid.
SM,
I compile and run the code that Daved posted, and if I enter "4 ajfie" it still reads as invalid input. The only way it will accept the input is if it is a float, and only a float...
Yes, I know, that's the point. Sorry if I didn't make it clear, but consider if I removed the characters at the end and only put a space:
"12.625 "
That is also invalid input because of the space. Sure, you could ask the user why they put the space there, but regardless, at first glance to an end user it looks like a valid float and on a proper program should be accepted. I didn't mean to type the characters after the space to imply bad input, I typed it to imply most data after the space.
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