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Ok, I new to this and haven't been taught exception handling yet but I would like my program to run without crashing when someone mashes the keyboard. I have declared an int x, and I don't want my program to crash when user inputs an char or more than 10 digits... what should I do?
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Input the number as a string, then pop it into a stream and back out to get it back in number form.
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  1. int number;
  2. string line;
  3. getline(cin, line);
  4. istringstream convert(line);
  5. convert >> number;

Check for errors by testing the stream object after conversion.
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  1. if (convert)
  2.     // good
  3. else
  4.    // bad
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I'm making this calculator thing, my knowledge in c++ isn't very deep at all, I don't understand why you need to convert the int to string to test the int and see if it's a string or not? I'm confused.
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>I don't understand why you need to convert the int to string to test the int and see if it's a string or not?
Because using cin to read in numbers is quite limited. If you have any doubts about it, look at the following program:
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  1. #include <iostream>
  2. using namespace std;
  3.  
  4. int main() {
  5.  
  6.     int num=0;
  7.  
  8.     while (num != 99) {
  9.         cout << "Please enter a number, or 99 to quit." << endl;
  10.         cin >> num;
  11.     }
  12.  
  13.     return 0;
  14. }

Try running it and see what happens when you type in some letters instead of numbers...

Hopefully you see my point now. cin fails to read, and then everything screws up. Using strings avoids that problem, because the user can enter just about anything and they won't screw up the input buffer. Then you can manually validate the input yourself.
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That's what happens with my program, when you enter a string when cin type is int, it enters some infinity loop in my while loop. I get that part now, so how do I use the if..else to test for the string and only get the numbers?
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Well, if you take the examples from my first post, and implement them in the program I just showed you, you end up with something like this:
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  1. #include <iostream>
  2. #include <sstream>
  3. using namespace std;
  4.  
  5. int main() {
  6.  
  7.     int num=0;
  8.     string line;
  9.  
  10.     while (num != 99) {
  11.         cout << "Please enter a number, or 99 to quit." << endl;
  12.         getline(cin, line);
  13.         istringstream convert(line);
  14.         convert >> num;
  15.         if (!convert)
  16.             cout << "Error, you must enter a valid number." << endl;
  17.     }
  18.  
  19.     return 0;
  20. }

It would be trivial to modify this into a loop that keeps waiting until the user enters valid input.
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Thank you joeprogrammer!
Mashed my keyboard... my little calcuation program didn't crash. Perfect!

I do have a few question about istringstream since I don't know what it does:
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  1.  istringstream convert(line)
Does this create a constructor class of istringstream?
What's the terminology for convert?

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  1.  convert >> num;
I'm guessing 'convert' with string line parsed in it is converted to and stored in int num;

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  1.  if (!convert)
not sure what convert is with the not equal syntax on it.
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C++ Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. istringstream convert(line);
  2. convert >> num;
  3. if (!convert)

What would be the pseudocode for the 3 lines above, well I want to understand it as well.

After some reading I found that istringstream is used to capture stirings for using as ints and such so the above would be something like:

using the constructor from istringstream class, content of the string 'line' is copied in to its internally associated string object named 'convert'.
or something like declare string stream 'convert'
'num' reads 'convert' into memory
if not type? 'convert' do ... <- :eek: I don't understand nor have good explanation for !convert?

Another thing is do i need to include the
C++ Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. #include <string>
for using string in my code or does that somehow get's included when you use:
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  1. #include <sstream>
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convert is the stringstream object. The convert is true or false based on the execution of the >> operator. Therefore
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  1. if (!convert)
actually says "if the previous operation was not successful..."
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>I don't understand why you need to convert the int to string to test the int and see if it's a string or not?
Because using cin to read in numbers is quite limited. If you have any doubts about it, look at the following program:
C++ Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. #include <iostream>
  2. using namespace std;
  3.  
  4. int main() {
  5.  
  6.     int num=0;
  7.  
  8.     while (num != 99) {
  9.         cout << "Please enter a number, or 99 to quit." << endl;
  10.         cin >> num;
  11.     }
  12.  
  13.     return 0;
  14. }

Try running it and see what happens when you type in some letters instead of numbers...

Hopefully you see my point now. cin fails to read, and then everything screws up. Using strings avoids that problem, because the user can enter just about anything and they won't screw up the input buffer. Then you can manually validate the input yourself.

I am sorry but when you say that cin has limited capability of reading the numbers what exactly do you mean. And why does it go to the infinite loop. I would be much obliged if you can reply to this as well. Thanks in advance.
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