input validiation

[vexstorm]

I am making a numbered menu system
1. caterer
2. decorate
3. entertain
4. quit

how would i go about checking to see if the user input a letter? i keep getting thrown into an infinite loop of the menu.

thanks

-vexstorm

[mahlerfive]

Assuming you are using cin to get input, just dump the input into a string, then look at the string to determine if it is 1-4 or something else. Generally all text-based user input should be received as a string and then processed if you want to do any kind of error checking on it.

[Bazzy]

An alternative to strings could be stringstreams so that they could be easily converted back to numbers

[Zaita]

http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/6046/