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Look up kbhit() -- sets flag if a key has been pressed
getch() -- gets ascii value of key that has been hit.
Think about using the combo in a loop.
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 thank you will look into them
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i found a more elegant solution to the problem and just thought it might be useful for others
instead of trying to only let them enter a single char i let them enter what they want and read the first char then clear the input buffer removing the rest of the word
cin.clear();
cin.ignore( std::numeric_limits<
streamsize>::max(), '' );
that way they can enter
e,E,East & east and all 4 will cause east to be selected
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Glad to see you are thinking out of the box, and that you are not happy to be spoon-fed - what happens when they press 4 or $ or CTRL e by mistake, instead of e or E?
Sure as little eggs, users will do whatever you least expect -- sometimes I get confused on what is in standard C as compared to C++ but I'm sure you can TRY to find out how to handle exceptional cases
(EDIT - just realised what a weird expression I've used, whatever have little eggs got to do with it? Sometimes I wonder where these expressions come from -- alien influences!)
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They don't need to sit down and work out how and why the program works [Angry] + the fact i spend hours doing it and him handing that out has brought everyone else up to where i am at a fraction of the time and effort [Angry]
Don't let it bug you - they will ever remain carp programmers. I haven't yet met a programmer who managed to learn without doing! Mind you, I do share your anger at the lecturer for spoon feeding his group, obviously he is yet another one suffering under badly crafted metrics. Probably gets a pay cut if he can't tick the box to say students understand input streams.
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