From: jpace Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: EOF Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 12:49:23 -0500 Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 17 Message-ID: <32EB9923.2B8A@concentric.net> References: <32E6383C DOT 750D AT cu DOT lu> <5cf4em$dca AT isis DOT fiu DOT edu> Reply-To: jpace AT concentric DOT net NNTP-Posting-Host: cnc053075.concentric.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp daniel k rathjens wrote: [ original problem snipped ] > > Which brings us to my question. Is there a better way to empty the > stream than: while(cin.get(ch) { }? > -- Try cin.ignore(MAX,delimeter). This will ignore everything up to and including the delimeter, but will ignore only a maximum of MAX characters. > #include #include > void main(geek *code) { // pointer points to: Danny Rathjens > GCS/M/S d+(-) s+:- a-- C+++>$ ULSC++>+++$ P+? L++ E W++(+) N+++ o K w++ > !O !M- V- PS PE+ Y-- PGP- t++@ !5 X+ R+ tv b+++ DI+ D+ G++ e+ h r y? }