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Hi Bill,



 BP> I've tried every flag, call, setting or function I can to get this to

 BP> work right, but it won't. If anyone can make this compile and work

 BP> under C Set ++, it'd be mucho appreciaited. 



 BP> #include 

 BP> main()

 BP> {

 BP> char input;



 BP> cout << "\n\n Hit return to continue:";

 BP> cout.flush();

 BP> cin >> input;

 BP> }



This code compiles without warning here (CSet 2.01). I gather the

problem you are having is that the function won't terminate until it

receives a couple of "Enter"s. Try using cin.get(input) instead of

 cin >> input and I think you'll find it will do what you want.



The problem is that the ios flags for cin default to ios::skipws|...|.

When you enter your carriage return cin skips leading white space and

continues reading the input stream, waiting for a valid char.



The alternative way around this is to:

	cin.unsetf(ios::skipws);

	cin >> input;

which will work, but you'll need to reset the ios flags afterwards,

if the rest of your program requires ios::skipws to be set.





Regards,



Peter Rye



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