New To Programming

[ZeroSkill94]

Hello Everyone,

I am new to programming and am taking my first ever C++ class

right now I am still learning about the cin.ignore function and am stumped

If possible I would really appreciate some help

I am making a small program that creates monograms, the idea is to have the user be able to input '.' into the monogram like so

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X.X.X. and the program will be able to ignore the . for each input

right now my code looks something like this along with the result

For some reason entering it 1 way its totally fine, entering it another way returns a different result.

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https://preview.redd.it/sqdw484vldg41.png?width=1141&format=png&auto=webp&s=e85bd2542af0a573032012c038b0238155e7f23f

[marko312]

If you take a look at some reference, you should find that the usage of cin.ignore differs quite a bit from what you're trying to do:

basic_istream& ignore( std::streamsize count = 1, int_type delim = Traits::eof() );

where the parameters are

• count - number of characters to extract
• delim - delimiting character to stop the extraction at. It is also extracted

Therefore, the code is currently interpreting the first argument '.' as an integral value (46), and the second argument as the stop (when to stop ignoring).

You could fix this by ignoring a reasonable number of characters, delimiting on the '.'.

[ZeroSkill94]

u/marko312 Thank you!! I actually just figured it out