This has actually worked for me. cout << "Press enter to continue."; cin.ignore(1, '\n'); cout << "Done.\n"; Greg On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 02:36:20PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > Hi Kirk and all, > > I guess I should have written out c plus plus instead of using the plus > sign, sorry about that. > > Attached is a very short program that shows what I am trying to do. I > want the pressenter() function to be able to be sure that there is > nothing on the input stream before it prints the "press enter to > continue" message. > > Is there a way to see how many characters are on the input stream so I > know what number of characters to pass to cin.ignore()? > > William >
