Question

I’m an absolute beginner to programming and i’m just doing some exercises exercises for the beginning.

First of all, i’m using Visual C++ 2010 to compile C-Code. I just create a new project and choose an empty console application. After that, I create a ressource file named test.c and change in the file properties the elementype to C/C++ Compiler and compile as C++ Code, so that i can use #include <iostream> for the std::cin.get() command. Now the code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>

int main() 
{
   int number1, number2;
   int sum;

   puts("Enter number 1 please:");
      scanf_s("%d",&number1);
   puts("Enter number 2 please:");
      scanf_s("%d",&number2);

   std::cin.get();
   std::cin.get();  //(1)

   sum = number1 + number2;
      printf("The average is %f\n", sum/2);

return 0; 
}

Now my problem ist that the “std::cin.get()” command is just ignored. Afer typing in the two numbers the program just stops and the console window closes.

Any idea where the problem is?

I have another question please.

Since my problem with holding the console open is solved (1), now my printf() gives me just zeros as output. I want to have a float number as output but no matter what i type in as number1 and number2 i always get “0.000000”.

Since i’m still working on my little program to verify the input before it is accepted, i have another question please.

I want to use the following code just to check the input.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <ctype.h>

int main() 
{
   int number1, number2;
   int sum;

   puts("Enter number 1 please:");
      scanf_s("%d",&number1);

   if (isdigit(number1)) 
   {
   puts("Enter number 2 please:");
      scanf_s("%d",&number2);
   }
   else 
   {
   puts("Your input is not correct. Enter a number please.");
   }

   std::cin.get();
   std::cin.get();

   /*



   sum = number1 + number2;
      printf("The average is %f\n", sum/2);  */

return 0; 
}

Well it doensn’t work. I type in a digit and my response is “Your input is not…”. I have used the search and found the following: Check if User Inputs a Letter or Number in C. Unfortunately the suggestions doesn’t help me.

Answer 1

It’s not ignored. When you type your second number, then hit enter, it puts your number plus a newline character in the input stream. scanf removes the number, but leaves the newline character alone. When you call cin.get(), since there’s a character in the stream, it doesn’t wait for your input.