Google Code C++ [closed]
- by JacKeown
I was on this website: http://code.google.com/edu/languages/cpp/basics/getting-started.html#learn-by-example and I saw this code:
// Description: Illustrate the use of cin to get input
// and how to recover from errors.
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int input_var = 0;
// Enter the do while loop and stay there until either
// a non-numeric is entered, or -1 is entered. Note that
// cin will accept any integer, 4, 40, 400, etc.
do {
cout << "Enter a number (-1 = quit): ";
// The following line accepts input from the keyboard into
// variable input_var.
// cin returns false if an input operation fails, that is, if
// something other than an int (the type of input_var) is entered.
if (!(cin >> input_var)) {
cout << "Please enter numbers only." << endl;
cin.clear();
cin.ignore(10000,'\n');
}
if (input_var != -1) {
cout << "You entered " << input_var << endl;
}
}
while (input_var != -1);
cout << "All done." << endl;
return 0;
}
I was wondering... what is the significance of cin.clear() and cin.ignore() ...and also why the 10000 and /n parameters are necessary...?...
