How would I only enter numbers and not characters

Hi sorry to bother, you, I cant find this information on your boards, all I would like to know is, how would I do an if statement, so that only numbers are accepted and no other characters: so for example only a number is enterd like 98, instead of a character like t, I tried a number of times, but i keep getting an infinate (i spell it right?) loop.
Its something I am doing for my own pleasure thanks.

Code:

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while ( bankBalance >= 1 ){
                cout << "Please enter a wager, or enter -1 to quit: " <<endl;
                cin >>wager;
                if (wager == -1)
                        return 0;
                if (wager > bankBalance){
                        cout << "That wager is higher then what you got in the bank" << endl <<endl;;
                        continue;}
                cout << endl;
       
                cout << "Ok here we go!" <<endl <<endl;
                bankBalance = onegame();
               
                cout << "Your new Bank Balance is " << bankBalance << " pounds" << endl << endl;
                       
        }

        cout << "Sorry, your broke, Game Over" << endl;

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ps hope i got them tabs right.
:) This is so fun

To my knowledge there are two approaches to consider. First you can test the fail bit of cin objects after input, and if input failed use clear() the fail bit, then notify user to retry. Second, you can assign all input as a string, then evaluate the string to see if it meets the criteria you desire. If it does then you can change the string into the numeric value by using atoi(), atol(), and related functions.

Ok thank you for your advice.

Hi, ok I still cant get it to work quite right, as I have had no experience doing this on C++ before I done this

Code:

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cout << "Please enter a wager, or enter -1 to quit: " <<endl;
                              rewind(stdin);               
                                cin >>wager;
                cin.clear()

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However now even though it will ignour it, if I enter a letter it still adds a wager, while it should ignour it all together and put something like, I know I need an if statement to make it work corectly, but I would like to know, what exactly I need to do all my C++ books, dont make it completely clear from where I am on them at the moment.

Code:

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cout << "Please renter value" << endl;

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I admit I dont understand this very well, what is the corect way to solve this problem, also what does rewind(stdin) do?
Thanks for your help I apreciate it very much.
Chris.

Code:

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if ( cin>> wager ) {
  // It's a number
}
else {
  cout<<"Please enter a number\n";
  cin.clear();
  cin.ignore ( 80, '\n' ); // 80 is arbitrary, but simpler than the better method
}

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>also what does rewind(stdin) do?
...aren't you the one that wrote it? Why code something that you don't know what it does? In any event, it basically seeks to the beginning of the stream if stdin is "seekable". Otherwise it does nothing.

OK, thank you I apreciate it a lot.