Cout in loop doesn't print char by char as defined

Question

I've recently started learning C++ at university and decided to advance a bit at home. I had the idea of making a program that, given a piece of text, would print out such text character by character with a small delay in-between (as seen in this video SUPER.HOT chat).

I tried to recreate it using a simple procedure:

void typer(string text){

for (int i = 0; i < text.length(); i++){
    cout << text[i];
    usleep(100000);
}

But when usleep() is set under 103900, it'll start printing out two characters at a time. My intention is to print only 1 at a time but very quickly.

Any suggestions? :D

Answer 1

You need to flush the stream, otherwise it will be cached

cout.flush();

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ostream/basic_ostream/flush/

Answer 2

You need flush output

 cout << text[i] << flush;

The usleep() function returns 0 on success. On error, -1 is returned, with errno set to indicate the cause of the error.

ERRORS EINTR Interrupted by a signal; see signal(7).

EINVAL usec is not smaller than 1000000. (On systems where that is considered an error.)