Press Enter to Continue

Question

This doesn't work:

string temp;
cout << "Press Enter to Continue";
cin >> temp;

Answer 1

cout << "Press Enter to Continue";
cin.ignore();

or, better:

#include <limits>
cout << "Press Enter to Continue";
cin.ignore(std::numeric_limits<streamsize>::max(),'\n');

Answer 2

Try:

char temp;
cin.get(temp);

or, better yet:

char temp = 'x';
while (temp != '\n')
    cin.get(temp);

I think the string input will wait until you enter real characters, not just a newline.

Answer 3

Replace your cin >> temp with:

temp = cin.get();

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/iostream/istream/get/

cin >> will wait for the EndOfFile. By default, cin will have the skipws flag set, which means it 'skips over' any whitespace before it is extracted and put into your string.

Answer 4

Try:

cout << "Press Enter to Continue";
getchar(); 

On success, the character read is returned (promoted to an int value, int getchar ( void );), which can be used in a test block (while, etc).