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Re: how to create a simple elevator simulation? 2 Days Ago by trueframe To make a basic elevator simulation, first, identify the floors and the elevator's capacity. Then, use loops and conditionals in programming to mimic its movement. Include buttons for users to call the elevator and select floors. Test thoroughly for accuracy. Re: Cin Help 11 Years Ago by VernonDozier cin.get() gets one character, not a string. Perhaps you want … imagine you'd be better off using the regular old >> operator with cin. cin >> firstword; cin >> secondword; Re: cin.get problems in use 18 Years Ago by Narue cin.get only gets one character. If there are more than … a direct call to get: [code] #include <limits.h> void pause ( const char *msg = "" ) { cout<<…; msg; cin.ignore ( INT_MAX, '\n' ); cin.get(); } [/code] Of course, that's hackish compared to… Re: Cin question 13 Years Ago by mike_2000_17 …minimize the terminal window and maximize again, this could trigger cin to flush the few letters you had typed before and… OS-specific stuff or a GUI platform of some kind. Cin is meant for command-line instructions: basically, "type …a command and press <enter>". BTW cout is independent from cin so waiting for a char or string… Re: Cin Keyboard inpout to const char* 14 Years Ago by Salem > Cin Keyboard inpout to const char* You want to "INPUT&… it? Lesson number 1 [code] #include <iostream> #include <string.h> #include "holding.h" #include <stdio….h> [/code] Decide whether you're a C programmer or a … Re: cin.getline not working in for loop or...? 18 Years Ago by Narue … input treats whitespace differently than nonformatted input. More precisely, cin's >> operator leaves a newline character in the stream for getline… Re: cin.getline not working in for loop or...? 18 Years Ago by Narue >cin.ignore( 2, '\n'); Feel free to replace 2 with any arbitrary number. Someone invariably pipes in with something like this, but fails to do it properly. Once again, search the forum for a better solution. Re: Cin question 13 Years Ago by Ancient Dragon >>cin is a buffer, it needs to flush, just like cout No it is not a buffer -- it is a c++ class. And cin can not be flushed. flush() only works on output streams, never input streams. Re: Cin Fail Method 11 Years Ago by Ancient Dragon cin.fail is not used to keep the screen open -- it is used to simply test to find out if cin succeeded or not. If you want to keep the screen open call cin.get(). Re: cin input 11 Years Ago by Lucaci Andrew `cin` waits till the user inserts something into the stream, and after that it takes into consideration the `'\n'` Re: cin.ignore 15 Years Ago by tymk cin.ignore(this post); Re: cin.ignore 15 Years Ago by Ancient Dragon cin.ignore() does not affect any of the characters in the … Re: cin a two word name 11 Years Ago by Moschops cin >> nameone >> nametwo; Re: Homework Help, please... [cout, cin] 19 Years Ago by Dave Sinkula cin and cout are part of the standard namespace. Early on, …]using namespace std; // after the #includes[/code]Since you[code]cin >> base_cost; [/code]you shouldn't make it [FONT=Courier New… Re: c++ (cin>>) error 10 Years Ago by Nutster `cin>>answerBoss;` is reading an integer. When it gets to the … stream. To get around this, call `cin.ignore();` before each call to `cin >>`. This will tell `cin` to empty the line of input… Re: Problem with "getline(cin, name)" 16 Years Ago by Narue >cin.get(sex); This only reads one of the two characters … Re: Can "cin" be smarter? 15 Years Ago by stilllearning cin as you know will read your input variables separated by spaces. There no way to get cin to do what you want. You can use getline or you can overload the istream operator and write your own function to parse the input. Re: c++ (cin>>) error 10 Years Ago by TheApex **cin>>overTime;** won't get executed if you enter bad values for **cin>>answerBoss;** In your code, the input data is expected to be an integer, if you supply anything else, it won't run the 2nd **cin**. Re: Why is my cin.getline getting skipped? 13 Years Ago by gmfreak1991 cin.ignore( numeric_limits <streamsize> ::max(), '\n' ); fixed it. thanks! Re: problem with gets() and cin.getline() in linux 15 Years Ago by vmanes cin.getline( colour, 10 ); Re: Please sugget how can i make these source code more effecient. Thanks alot. 9 Years Ago by deceptikon > cin.sync(); // 'flush' cin stream ... Sadly, [it's not that easy](https://www.daniweb.… Re: Bit of weirdness 11 Years Ago by mike_2000_17 … is placed on the buffer (internal to cin). When your program executes a line like `cin >> userInput`, the data is inspected (starting… << "Please enter a number\n"; while( !(cin >> userInput) ) { cout << "BAAAAAD USER! I SAID NUMBER… Re: Linked List: Mp3 Menu (String and Delete problem) 15 Years Ago by james_zheng cin.getline() needs char* as its arguments, so you have to declare an char array to store the data. Then pass the length of the string you input. sample code: char str[100]; cin.getline(str,100); Re: separating strings in a structure 12 Years Ago by Ancient Dragon cin stops reading keyboard input at the first space or the enter key. The next time cin is called it will just take whatever is already in the keybord buffer, if anything. call getline() instead of cin to allow for spaces in the string. [icode]getline(cin,record[i].Sno);[/icode] Re: problem in character type input 13 Years Ago by Ancient Dragon cin.ignore() is not needed after calling getline() -- delete them Re: string input not working as expected 18 Years Ago by Narue … whitespace as a delimiter: [code] string s; cin>> s; // Type "John Doe" cout<<…, defined in <limits>: [code] cin.ignore(numeric_limits<streamsize>::max(), '\n'); [/code] >What am I to do… use whitespace as a separater, use operator>>. Otherwise use getline. >you might be able to put "… Re: while loop and getline 15 Years Ago by QuantNeeds > > `cin >> setw( 20 ) >> toolName;` > > setw() is only for output streams, it does nothing on input streams such as cin. > > 1) …quantity in stock: "; cin >> inStock; cout << "Enter the unit price: "; cin >> unitPrice; // set the … Re: Handling Exceptions - Program ignoring specific characters for if statements 15 Years Ago by Ancient Dragon … be entered into numeric fields. So when you have [icode]cin >> num1[/icode] num1 will NEVER have 'x' or 'X'. What… denominator for each fraction. "; cin >> input1 >> input2; if( input1.length() > 0 && input2.length() > 0) { if( input1[0] == 'X… Re: HELPP!!!!!!!! 13 Years Ago by Ancient Dragon … to enter a number followed by the return key. >>if(cin.get()>>1); That line makes no sense. If you look…(answer); // or you can do it like this: cin >> answer; } [/code] And watch out for those semicolons at the … Re: classes and arrays 11 Years Ago by WaltP > cin >> studentList[row].getSSN(); I don't see any definition at all for `getSSN()`. I suspect that's problem 1. Problem 2 is probably because `getSSN()` *returns* a value (as suggested by the name) and you are trying to read *into* it.