my administrator at school blocked commands for command prompt so I can't use system pause or system color commands....anyone know a way around this?
TMD
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Jump to Postsystem pause seems to be frowned upon anyway, but the best replacement (if you don't care about portability) could just be to use
#include <conio.h> // windows only, for getch
cout << "Press any key to continue."'
getch(); //waits until one key is pressedSorry I don't know …
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Joatmon
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system pause seems to be frowned upon anyway, but the best replacement (if you don't care about portability) could just be to use
#include <conio.h> // windows only, for getch
cout << "Press any key to continue."'
getch(); //waits until one key is pressed
Sorry I don't know about color commands, I never used them.
WaltP
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system pause seems to be frowned upon anyway, but the best replacement (if you don't care about portability) could just be to use
#include <conio.h> // windows only, for getch
cout << "Press any key to continue."'
getch(); //waits until one key is pressed
A terrible suggestion. Why suggest a function that is not available in most compilers? Anything wrong with a simple getline() , which is defined in ALL compilers?
Joatmon
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Because I don't use all compilers and thus never had the opportunity to gain experience from it, I choose that because getline requires enter, but this just uses any key to continue. I already mentioned that it wasn't portable in the first place.
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