DaWei

Getch would be no better. One shouldn't mix the two types of streams unless one has synched THEM. If they were synched, the newline would still mess up getch unless you called "rewind (stdin)." cin.sync () will do it, as Mitakeet says -- it slams the get pointer back to the beginning of the buffer (the "put" location for the read mechanism), thus discarding any characters in the buffer. I consider it more effective than "ignore".

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Thnx for the clarification.

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