Question

I’m trying to only accept integers as input and loop through it at the same time as a sort of validation. The problem is, when a user enters something along the lines of “Two” the while loop goes through the input 3 different times before asking the user again. Is there a way to prevent this from happening and just skip the 3 iterations?

cout << "Enter Student ID: ";
while(!(cin >> id))
{
    cout << "\nERROR: Please enter a Positive Whole Number" << endl;
    cin.clear();
    cin.ignore ();
    cout << "Enter Student ID: ";
}

Answer 1

You can use this.

cin.ignore (std::numeric_limits<streamsize>::max (), '\n') ;

It would skip all the lines and you wont get extra loop iterations, no matter how many invalid characters you enter.