How do I flush the cin buffer?

Possibly:

std::cin.ignore(INT_MAX);

This would read in and ignore everything until EOF. (you can also supply a second argument which is the character to read until (ex: '\n' to ignore a single line).

Also: You probably want to do a: std::cin.clear(); before this too to reset the stream state.

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