Is there any "break" alternative to system pause other than getch

[AlitCandle]

I need some breaks in my program, but I can't use getch or getchar because there is a lot of getline(cin, variable) in the code I'm writing. I don't want to have to resort to system("pause")

[ToniAz]

What's wrong with that?

[AlitCandle]

With what? system("pause")? Apparently it opens the cmd just to stop your program, then runs it, then closes cmd to resume your program. Very resource heavy.

[ToniAz]

I'm sorry, I mean using getchar because there is a lot of getline.

Yes, you're right about system calls, I agree on that.

[3bfGNwbp]

Not to mention system calls leave huge security gaps in your program.

[Lowest0ne]

but I can't use getch or getchar because there is a lot of getline(cin, variable)

Because you have a '\n' in your buffer. Try ignore():

string line;
getline(cin, line);  // getline extracts until it hits the delimiter, which defaults to '\n'
                     // getline(istream& in, string line, char delim = '\n')
cin.ignore(); // ignore(streamsize (an integer) amount, char delim = EOF)

cout << "You typed: " << line << endl;

// without ignore(), the get() returns the '\n' remaining from the getline()
cin.get(); // which is a C++ getchar()