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Reputation: 648

Asking for user input, and then ignoring it

I want to ask the user for input, and then just ignore than input. I don't care what the user puts, I just care that the user types something in (actually I don't really care if they do that, but I want to make them think that they have to type something in).

I get that I can do something like this:

std::cout << "Type something: ";
{
   int i;
   std::cin >> i;
}
std::cout << "You typed something.";

But I was wondering if there was some easy, clean one-line alternative.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 77

Answers (1)

Paul Rooney
Paul Rooney

Reputation: 21609

You want to use cin.ignore or cin::get.

e.g.

#include <iostream>

int main(){
    std::cout << "press enter key.\n";
    std::cin.ignore();
}

Upvotes: 4

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