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hey. Im not sure how to adapt cin.get(); to stop my prog exiting here it is. If sum1 could point me in the correct direction that would be cool

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    string firstName;
    string lastName;
    int ID;
    int age;
    float salary;
    string occupation;

    cout << "Enter your first name ";
    cin >> firstName;

    cout << "Enter your last name ";
    cin >> lastName;

    cout << "Enter your ID number ";
    cin >> ID;
   
    cout << "Enter your age ";
    cin >> age;
   
    cout << "Enter your salary (Per Year) ";
    cin >> salary;
   
    cout << "Enter your occupation ";
    cin >> occupation;

    cout << "Hello " << firstName << " " << lastName << " " << age << " " << salary << " "<< occupation;
    cout << " or should I say " << ID << end1;

    return 0;
}

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thankz ;)

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <limits>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    string firstName;
    string lastName;
    int ID;
    int age;
    float salary;
    string occupation;

    cout << "Enter your first name ";
    cin >> firstName;

    cout << "Enter your last name ";
    cin >> lastName;

    cout << "Enter your ID number ";
    cin >> ID;
   
    cout << "Enter your age ";
    cin >> age;
   
    cout << "Enter your salary (Per Year) ";
    cin >> salary;
   
    cout << "Enter your occupation ";
    cin >> occupation;

    cout << "Hello " << firstName << " " << lastName << " " << age << " " << salary << " "<< occupation;
    cout << " or should I say " << ID << endl;

    cin.ignore ( numeric_limits<streamsize>::max(), '\n' );
    cin.get();

    return 0;
}

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ive seen cin.get(); bein used without that header or other thing and it was compliant. plz explain!

That's because you #include <iostream> for cin.get(), but Prelude has something else to it as well, in bold.

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Originally Posted by Prelude

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <limits>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    string firstName;
    string lastName;
    int ID;
    int age;
    float salary;
    string occupation;

    cout << "Enter your first name ";
    cin >> firstName;

    cout << "Enter your last name ";
    cin >> lastName;

    cout << "Enter your ID number ";
    cin >> ID;
   
    cout << "Enter your age ";
    cin >> age;
   
    cout << "Enter your salary (Per Year) ";
    cin >> salary;
   
    cout << "Enter your occupation ";
    cin >> occupation;

    cout << "Hello " << firstName << " " << lastName << " " << age << " " << salary << " "<< occupation;
    cout << " or should I say " << ID << endl;

    cin.ignore ( numeric_limits<streamsize>::max(), '\n' );
    cin.get();

    return 0;
}

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Using cin.ignore(); works and you don't have to include <Limits>. So it would look like this:

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    string firstName;
    string lastName;
    int ID;
    int age;
    float salary;
    string occupation;

    cout << "Enter your first name ";
    cin >> firstName;

    cout << "Enter your last name ";
    cin >> lastName;

    cout << "Enter your ID number ";
    cin >> ID;
   
    cout << "Enter your age ";
    cin >> age;
   
    cout << "Enter your salary (Per Year) ";
    cin >> salary;
   
    cout << "Enter your occupation ";
    cin >> occupation;

    cout << "Hello " << firstName << " " << lastName << " " << age << " " << salary << " "<< occupation;
    cout << " or should I say " << ID << endl;

    cin.ignore();
    cin.get();

    return 0;
}

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u guys are hell smart

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Originally Posted by stickman

Using cin.ignore(); works and you don't have to include <Limits>. So it would look like this:

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There is a reason Prelude included <limits> and added the extra code to the ignore() call... it's better. The <limits> header is required only for that extra code (to get numerical_limits).

cin.ignore(); only ignores one character in the stream.
cin.ignore( numeric_limits<streamsize>::max(), '\n' ); ignores all characters in the stream up to and including the first newline.

If you type "Programmer duh!" for your occupation, the first one will not work (it will ignore only the d in "duh!"), but the second one will work fine because it will ignore all of "duh!" and the newline after it.

P.S. Prelude: what is streamsize? and why did you use it?

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Originally Posted by jlou

There is a reason Prelude included <limits> and added the extra code to the ignore() call... it's better. The <limits> header is required only for that extra code (to get numerical_limits).

cin.ignore(); only ignores one character in the stream.
cin.ignore( numeric_limits<streamsize>::max(), '\n' ); ignores all characters in the stream up to and including the first newline.

If you type "Programmer duh!" for your occupation, the first one will not work (it will ignore only the d in "duh!"), but the second one will work fine because it will ignore all of "duh!" and the newline after it.

P.S. Prelude: what is streamsize? and why did you use it?

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Yeah, but if you want the user to hit enter and then close, use cin.ignore();
cin.get();

The user can type whatever and when the user hits enter the program quits or whatever follows that line.

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Originally Posted by stickman

Yeah, but if you want the user to hit enter and then close, use cin.ignore();
cin.get();

The user can type whatever and when the user hits enter the program quits or whatever follows that line.

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No, both are the same, except cin.ignore() doesn't work sometimes when the other one does.

Just the simple ignore() of a single char only works if only a newline is in the stream. If there are other characters it won't do what you want.

>P.S. Prelude: what is streamsize? and why did you use it?
streamsize is a signed integral type representing the size of I/O buffers. It's similar to the POSIX ssize_t in usage. I used it for portability and documentation reasons. The portability reason is that I simply don't know (or care) what the size of the I/O buffer is. The documentation reason is that streamsize better illustrates the intention of the statement than say, int or long.

>Yeah, but if you want the user to hit enter and then close, use cin.ignore();
>cin.get();
This only works if there is only one character left in the stream for ignore to eat. Otherwise, get will read the next character and the user will not have a chance to hit enter. It's the classic scanf/gets combo in a different disguise.

I just wanted to say that I added cin.ignore ( numeric_limits<streamsize>::max(), '\n' ); in my own programs that use cin.get()... and it works wicked awesome.

mucho bueno. :)