cin.ignore(); cin.clear();

[W DR]

When doing a cin >> operation with a char variable like this.

 char controlChar; 
 cout << "Would you like to make another choice?";
 cout << "Enter 'y', or 'n' : ";
 cin >> controlChar;

If the user enters more than one character it causes problems. If you use a loop to help control the input error you get something like this.

Would you like to make another choice?
Enter 'y', or 'n' : sd
Enter 'y', or 'n' :
Enter 'y', or 'n' :_

What can be done to separate the input? Would a get function work to only get the first character of the input? Can you cin.ignore(); everything but the first character?

Thanks,
Dave

[Yanson]

if I had no choice but to input with char I would cin.ignore(1000, '\n'); ignores 1000 characters until it encounters a newline

[tath]

you can always make it like this:

string in;
cin >> in;

if ( in.c_str()[0] == 'y' || in.c_str()[0] == 'Y')
//something 

[Duthomhas]

Yanson +1

#include <limits> 

cin >> controlChar;  // get first character of line input
cin.ignore( numeric_limits <streamsize> ::max(), '\n' );  // ignore everything else on line 

Hope this helps.

[W DR]

I've used this before, I guess I was thinking that I needed to get (in the original post) the "s" and reject the rest of the stream. But if the "char" only stores the first character entered, then I don't need to worry about that, I was also thinking that if I used the cin.ignore(); it would ignore everything, including the character that already entered.

Thanks for the help.