Check if input is integer type in C

num will always contain an integer because it’s an int. The real problem with your code is that you don’t check the scanf return value. scanf returns the number of successfully read items, so in this case it must return 1 for valid values. If not, an invalid integer value was entered and the num … Read more

What does Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in) actually mean?

Alright, let’s elaborate with some simplified explanation about the Scanner class. It is a standard Oracle class which you can use by calling the import java.util.Scanner. So let’s make a basic example of the class: Now when you call Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); you make a new object of the Scanner class (so you make a new “Scanner”) and you store … Read more

Getting Keyboard Input

You can use Scanner class Import first : Then you use like this. Side note : If you are using nextInt() with nextLine() you probably could have some trouble cause nextInt() does not read the last newline character of input and so nextLine() then is not gonna to be executed with desired behaviour. Read more in how to solve it in this previous question Skipping nextLine … Read more

Why would we call cin.clear() and cin.ignore() after reading input?

The cin.clear() clears the error flag on cin (so that future I/O operations will work correctly), and then cin.ignore(10000, ‘\n’) skips to the next newline (to ignore anything else on the same line as the non-number so that it does not cause another parse failure). It will only skip up to 10000 characters, so the code is assuming the user will … Read more

How to prompt for user input and read command-line arguments

To read user input you can try the cmd module for easily creating a mini-command line interpreter (with help texts and autocompletion) and raw_input (input for Python 3+) for reading a line of text from the user. Command line inputs are in sys.argv. Try this in your script: There are two modules for parsing command line options: (deprecated since Python 2.7, use argparse instead) and getopt. If … Read more