system(“pause”); - Why is it wrong?

Question

Here\'s a question that I don\'t quite understand:

The command, system(\"pause\"); is taught to new programmers as a way to pause a program and wait for

Answer 1

system("pause");  

is wrong because it's part of Windows API and so it won't work in other operation systems.

You should try to use just objects from C++ standard library. A better solution will be to write:

cin.get();
return 0;

But it will also cause problems if you have other cins in your code. Because after each cin, you'll tap an Enter or \n which is a white space character. cin ignores this character and leaves it in the buffer zone but cin.get(), gets this remained character. So the control of the program reaches the line return 0 and the console gets closed before letting you see the results.
To solve this, we write the code as follows:

cin.ignore();  
cin.get();  
return 0;