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Thanks again, I had that fix in. I saw the others though and was shocked (if not surprised) at the number of them!

Many thanks for the replies. My problem is that if there is nothing in the buffer, the cin.ignore() waits for input. Also, it doesn't happen every time; the first pass is fine, but if I call the...

Hello all -- I'm pretty new to C++ and C and can't figure out how to reliably detect and work around the mystery input that seems to get trapped in cin. Without any discernible pattern, VC++ seems...