cin.peek() & cin.seekg() in a for loop??

>>advance the read position of the cin stream

Err, why would you want to do that? 'Advancing' cin is sort of an oxymoron. Why don't you just

for(int n = 0; success == true && invalidChar != '\n'; n++)
{
  cin >> invalidChar;
  if(!isdigit(invalidChar))
        if(!(invalidChar == '.'))
           success = false;
}

I'm trying to read in a double, but I wanted to test it first. By peeking at and testing each character, I still have it in the cin stream to be able to read it into operand if it is valid. If I do it your way, the potential operand is gone (dicarded a character at a time). I am a student, and I am trying to learn to use the peek and seekg methods.

Ah, OK, that makes sense. 'seekg()' won't be able to advance 'cin' as there is no further input past the current stream position So, using

for(int n = 0; success == true && cin.peek() != '\n'; n++)
{
  invalidChar = cin.peek();
  if(!isdigit(invalidChar))
        if(!(invalidChar == '.'))
           success = false;
 cin >> invalidChar;
}

will make it work.

cout<< "Please enter an operand --> ";

If I would have entered 35.68 to the above prompt, why wouldn't seekg have moved the read position incrementally with each iteration of the for loop so that peek could validate each of the characters until the newline is reached, and if success cin>>operand?

for(int n = 0; success == true && cin.peek() != '\n'; n++)
{
   invalidChar = cin.peek();
   if(!isdigit(invalidChar))
         if(!(invalidChar == '.'))
            success = false;
   cin.seekg((n+1), ios::beg);
}

>>If I would have entered 35.68 to the above prompt, why wouldn't seekg have moved the read position
>>incrementally

Because you are not giving it a chance to do so - your code is executed even *before* the '3' is entered.

I just tried emailing you at XRKFNDZEMORB@spammotel.com as indicated in your profile, but I'm not sure if it is current. Can I call you to discuss? I'm confused on a few points.

The email address is correct. Are you sure you want to make long distance call to good ole europe? BTW, gonna leave for lunch soon anyway :o)

there are two seekg functions are there

basic_istream<charT,traits>& seekg(off_type, ios_base::seekdir);
basic_istream<charT,traits>& seekg(off_type);

you are using the first one . so std::ios::beg will initialise the stream pointer ate beg
so seekg(n+1,std::ios:beg)
will make ur pointer to not to move i feel so

firts initialise with std::ios::beg but later use only seekg(n+1)
use only seekg(n+1)

i hope it will work

check also std::isspace

Thanks, but I had to move on. I have already changed my code to accomplish my goal another way. My project was due.

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