Infinite Loop after cin help

[raines883]

Below is a code fragment that I'm having trouble with. For some reason I get an infinite loop after entering the telephone number into the struct variable that is an int. I think it has something to do with alternating between getline and cin but even if I add the cin.ignore is still doesn't fix the problem. Was wondering if anyone notices anything that might help:

[Forseth11]

I tested it, but I took [count].name out and all the other [count] out to test it and it worked fine. Can I see more code?

[raines883]

Here is what I have so far. It's inside a switch statement. Well the [count] is there so that the user will step through the struct entering the information that is requested. Here some more code to see what I am doing wrong:

[raines883]

Seems the problem is with the line

cout << "Telephone number: " << endl;
cin >> customerAcc[count].tele;

If I enter one digit less than a full phone number then it works fine. But if I enter a whole phone number like 7078031940 then it goes into an infinite loop. Still trying to figure this out its pretty weird.

[raines883]

Been a couple of days and still can't seem to get this code to work. Was wondering if anyone had any tips.

[Chervil]

I'm not sure whether this will work. After an error has occurred on a stream, you can clear the flags with clear(). Thus cin.clear(); may help.

[raines883]

Thanks that did the tricke, didn't think about clearing the stream! :-)

[Chervil]

The reason for the error is that 7078031940 requires 33 bits to store as an integer.
Thus it will probably need to be handled as a string, or as a type long long which is (at least) 64 bits.

[raines883]

Ah yea completely overlooked that fact. Thanks again, got the program running. I'll definitely remember this for next time hehe.