Standard Input Trouble

[c_323_h]

I am having trouble reading standard input from the user. The user must enter in a floating point number followed by a letter with no spaces between. Ex: 5b, 3c, 6t, etc. I've tried this to no avail...

float num;
char letter;

cout<<"Enter your selection: ";
cin>>num>>letter;

It only works if there is a space between them. Anyone have a workaround to this problem?

Thanks

[Mario F.]

Well, the input is clearly a std::string. Use that to define the variable used to store the input and then write the necessary code to split the string into the double and char tokens.

Edit: Other possibility is using get(). I'm not all too familiar with it though. Maybe someone can help better

[laserlight]

I dont have a problem with that on this machine, but my guess is that the state of the stream is being set to failed, so the second read never happens. A solution is:

float num;
char letter;

cout<<"Enter your selection: ";
cin>>num;
cin.clear(); // clear status of stream
cin>>letter;

[Mario F.]

Wow.
Didn't know I could that. Also tested the OP code and it works. I thought a space was mandatory.

[whiteflags]

It depends on what you're reading. If I wanted to extract a float and then an int, a delimiter would really be necessary.