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[ironzombie99]

I just started out playing around with C++ today.
Anyway after i compile the code and run it, the dos prompt comes up and shows it for only about 1-2 seconds, what do i do to make it stay longer?

Hers my simple code

#include
#include

int main()
{
cout << "My name is Nick" << endl;
int myage = 15;
cout << "My age is" << myage << endl;
cout << "The date is" < cout << "11/17/01" < return 0;

}

[ironzombie99]

Im using Dev-C++ 4 to do this

[DrZaius]

Hi ironzombie99,

You need to ask for user input so that the program will pause and you can see the results. Try this for example:

#include 

int main()
{
  int age;
  cout << "Please enter your age:";
  cin >> age;
  cout << "Your age is: " << age;
  return 0;
}

[ironzombie99]

thanks ill try this out

[Leef]

Rather than clicking on the .exe to run it...run it from a DOS prompt instead. I had to do this when I was trying to learn C++. Basically...when the program runs...it shuts down the prompt when the program finishes. But if you run it from within the DOS prompt, it shouldn't shut it down.

[kcbhiw]

try adding either cin.get(1); or getch(); to your code. Like this:

#include
#include

int main()
{
cout << "My name is Nick" << endl;
int myage = 15;
cout << "My age is" << myage << endl;
cout << "The date is" < cout << "11/17/01" < return 0;
cin.get(1);
}

or

#include
#include

int main()
{
cout << "My name is Nick" << endl;
int myage = 15;
cout << "My age is" << myage << endl;
cout << "The date is" < cout << "11/17/01" < return 0;
getch();
}

that will pause the screen and require you to press enter.

requesting an input, such as 'cin' will not stop the screen to allow you to view the final output. it will only allow you to read the output up until the 'cin' statement. if using cin, and cin.ignore();, you will have two screen stops. try this out if u want to load 'myage' manually:

#include
#include

int main()
{
cout << "My name is Nick" << endl;
cin >> myage;
cout << "My age is" << myage << endl;
cout << "The date is" < cout << "11/17/01" < return 0;
cin.get(1);
}


the '1' in cin.get(), for sake of simplicity, ignores the enter key.
hope this helps.