What is the Best Practice for Combating the Console Closing Issue?

Question

After compiling console programs the console window closes immediately after running. What is the best practice for keeping it open? I\'ve searched google loads, I\'m used t

Answer 1

cin is grossly inelegant but easy for the forgetful to derive:

{
  char c;
  std::cin >> c;
}

That holds the window open until you type a character /* edit */ and hit enter.

std::cin.get() will close the window the moment you type a character, which, depending on how easily you become habituated, runs a marginally greater risk of "whoops, I wish I hadn't closed that!" than the two-keystroke operator>>(istream &).

Both differ from a system("pause") in that they return in a program-accessible way the value of the character you typed, so, if as not infrequently happens, one kludge leads to another, you can write a switch statement based on what you typed to (for example) exit immediately, write some values to a log, run it again, etc.