Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 13:32:29 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Problem with cin.get
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Matt Firewalker wrote:

> Every time I use cin.get, my program seems to skip right past it.  It
> doesn't matter what I am trying to do with it; I pass in an array of
> characters and a number of characters to read, that's it.  Is there
> something wrong nyah?

You forget about buffering: any prompt which doesn't end with a newline 
won't be written unless you fflush the stream.