Infinite While loop

[cGuru]

I have a small loop that gets the user input, as well as acts as input validation to make sure he or she doesn't enter a value that is not within the specified range.

The user is supposed to enter a month number. E.g. if he or she chooses February, then enter 2, or December, 12.

It works correctly if they type a number that is not in the range, but goes into an infinite loop if, say, they type a string such as "month".

int main()
{
    // Variable Declaration(s)/Initialization(s)
    int month=0;

    // Get input
    cout<<"Enter a month";
    cin>>month;

    while ((month<1)||(month>12))
    {
        cout<<"Error: That is not a valid month."
	cout<<"\nEnter the month. (E.g. January would be 1, September \
would be 9, etc.)\n";
        cin>>month;
    }
}

How could I go about revising this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[admkrk]

if/else is your friend for validating input.

[cire]

int main()
{
    // Variable Declaration(s)/Initialization(s)
    int month=0;

    // Get input
    cout<<"Enter a month";
    cin>>month;
    
    // add !cin to loop condition:
    while (!cin || (month<1)||(month>12))
    {
        cout<<"Error: That is not a valid month."
	cout<<"\nEnter the month. (E.g. January would be 1, September would be 9, etc.)\n";

        cin.clear(); // clear error state.
        cin.ignore(1000, '\n');  // remove offending data from stream.

        cin>>month;
    }
}