Program:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using std::cin;
using std::cout;
using std::endl;
using std::string;
int main(){
double x;
string name;
while(cin >> name){
cout<<name<<endl;
while (cin >> x);
cin.clear();
}
}
Input:
Moo 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
Moore 75 85 77 59 0 85 75 89
Norman 57 78 73 66 78 70 88 89
Westerly 43 98 96 79 100 82 97 96
Edwards 77 72 73 80 90 93 75 90
Franklin 47 70 82 73 50 87 73 71
Jones 77 82 83 50 10 88 65 80
Carpenter 47 90 92 73 100 87 93 91
Output:
Moo
Moore
orman
Westerly
wards
ranklin
Jones
rpenter
I started working through the book accelerated C++ and ran into a piece of the authors code (chapter 4) that was not working as expected on my machine (the above sample is abbreviated but experiences the same problem as the code directly from the book). The intent is to print all the names from the beginning of the lines of numbers representing student grades in the input. What actually happens is that some of the names are printed in full while others, apparently at random, have letters missing from the start. I was hoping someone here could shed some light on why this is happening.
My initial thought was that in the process of failing on reaching non-numeric input the line:
while (cin >> x);
was somehow overshooting the beginning of the next name but I am having difficulty testing this and I'm unsure of why that should happen.
Update: It seems I was experiencing the same issue as this question with the clang compiler for mac.
