Thread: Flushing cin buffer.

Does anyone know how to flush the input buffer in C++? I was able to do it in C by fflush(stdin) in C I/O, but I could not find its counterpart in C++. I am using a lot of input operations in my file structures project and sometimes values which were previously inputted are inputted again due to this problem.

Thanks for any help.

cin.flush;

cin.flush does not exist. flush is an ostream member.

to do what you want try this...

Code:

void flush(istream & is)
{
is.clear();
is.ignore(80,'\n');
}

you can call it like this....

flush(cin);

that probably explains why i couldnt get it to work in my code?