Do-while endlessly looping cout, ignores cin

Question

This program prints a specified amount of numbers within a specified range. However, when I enter a character, it just endlessly loops whichever do-while loop I do it in. E.

Answer 1

You could try doing something like

int a;
string trash;

do {
  cout << "Enter minimum number" << endl;
  cin >> a;

  if(cin.fail()){
    cin.clear();
    cin >> trash;
  }

} while (cin.fail());

This will remove any bad input from the cin stream by throwing it into the trash string.

This link may help you understand these cin functions a bit better.

http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~cs102/lectures/cinLecture.html