This should work so why doesn't it

[Belisarius]

Sorry about the numerous posts, I'm just replying to various points

Anyways, it didn't look like anyone explained the problem. The \n is actually a carraige return (IE "Enter"). That keystroke, as I understand what joe_bruin is saying, gets passed along with the 'y', so you need to account for it.

Originally posted by ntws01
I have no idea where you got that from, ther user does not at any point enter '\n' in fact there is no '\n' I used a forward slash because I knew that a backslash would be an escape charater. The user inputs either y or n but never '\n'.
As for the spelling mistake thats a minor problem.

BTW. I have had this problem before a number of times with GCC without a using 'cin << varname;' and that is why I'm think the problem might be the compiler itself

[sde]

Originally posted by Belisarius
I think sde IS abuse. So no worries.

=) yes, i am abuse. no problems, everything is handled in this thread.

[ntws01]

Originally posted by Belisarius
Sorry about the numerous posts, I'm just replying to various points

Anyways, it didn't look like anyone explained the problem. The \n is actually a carraige return (IE "Enter"). That keystroke, as I understand what joe_bruin is saying, gets passed along with the 'y', so you need to account for it.

Oh I think I understand that now.
I'm only getting one char, but the '\n' is automatically appended to the end of the users input because the user has to press enter to submit the value.

[ntws01]

Originally posted by ntws01
Oh I think I understand that now.
I'm only getting one char, but the '\n' is automatically appended to the end of the users input because the user has to press enter to submit the value.

Tried it and it works, thanks for the help everyone.

BTW. If joe_bruin doesn't already know can you tell him that I regret what I said earlier and that it was a mistake on my part to get angry at him.