How do I clear the cin buffer in C++?
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Possibly:
This would read in and ignore everything until
EOF. (you can also supply a second argument which is the character to read until (ex:'\n'to ignore a single line).Also: You probably want to do a:
std::cin.clear();before this too to reset the stream state.