cin.ignore requests input

[captianjroot]

I've made a function that prints text slowly (prints a character, waits x ticks, prints a character, etc), and need a way to clear cin after printing to ignore any input the user made while the function was printing. I tried using cin.clear() followed by cin.ignore(1000, 'n') but the console will pause and act like cin is requesting input from the user. here is the way i have this set up right now

  fancyprint("Starting up...          ", 80);
    cin.clear();
    cin.ignore(1000, 'n');

the print function itself works fine, i'm just unable to empty cin afterwards.

[Chervil]

Try the delimiter '\n' (newline) rather than 'n' (the lowercase letter n).

Though if the user has not actually made any input, this will still wait.