Another simple question

Hi,

Let say I printed something out to the screen,

cout << "Love one another";

how do I make it so that so the program will pause until the user hits "enter"??

Is there some Pause, Wait command??

cout << "Love one another";
cin.get();

-Prelude

I think the prelude is very nice...no pun intended :D

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getch(); // waits for any key being pressed

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#include <stdlib.h>

system("pause");

// print to the screen "Press any key to continue..." and waits for user's input....
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>getch(); // waits for any key being pressed
Nonstandard, may not work on all implementations and a bad idea in general to use unless you have to.

>system("pause");
To my knowledge this only works on DOS and Windows systems, and the system function is godawful slow.

-Prelude

while (!kbhit()); should also work, but I believe it's nonstandard as well.

BTW getch() will continue if the user presses any key at all. To check for enter being pressed, try:

while (getch() != 13);

Here's a standard way...

Code:

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char wait;
cin>>wait;

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The fastest too

Yeah but you could gunk up your buffer doing that.

I love this forum, ...thank you to everyone who replied, appreciate the advice and suggestions :D

another quick question:

I don't remember exactly, but once upon a time I heard that "cout" outputs to a buffer. I was wonder if there is a command to purge that buffer (i.e. to display the text in that buffer immediately). I'm having timing problems with the getin() and system("pause").

cout << "WASABI";
getin() // or system(pause)

my program would pause first, then when i press enter,..."WASABI" would then print (not good :[)