anyone know that piece of code to make a program stay open in dos?

[Peks]

when you run a program from the stand alone exe, and not through the compiler, the program closes after its done. my teacher showed us some code that was something like "cin>>something" but i cant remember what it is..its really short. if anyone knows could they post it here? thanks!

 

[notfred]

system('pause');

 

[Peks]

thanks its actually

system("pause");

i got an error with single quotes.

 

[helppls]

a more portable and secure way:

#include <iostream>
...
std::cout << "Press enter twice to continue ";
std::cin.ignore();
std::cin.ignore();
...

 

[Peks]

wouldnt

cin>>ws;

work too?

 

[Nothinman]

Why not just keep a cmd window open and run it from there?

 

[vexingv]

hmm from wut i remember from my AP CS class in HS..my teacher told us to use: the line " getch (); " i also think you need to include the conio.h header file. hope that helps

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: vexingv
hmm from wut i remember from my AP CS class in HS..my teacher told us to use: the line " getch (); " i also think you need to include the conio.h header file. hope that helps

AFAIK that's a windows thing, std::cin will work anywhere.

 

[helppls]

Originally posted by: Peks
wouldnt

cin>>ws;

work too?

i doubt that that would work if there is a \n in the buffer (like there would be after using cin >> prior to cin >> ws)