question  getch()

depak (2)   Link to this post
hey guys i want to enter an array element with getch(), with followig statement


name[1][1]=getch();
cout<<name[1][1];
int x=name[1][1];
cout<<x;

it works well, when i press enter as my input, it returns an ASCII equivalent of 13.
when i enter the array elementwith get(), with foolowing statement

cin.get(name[1][1]);
cout<<name[1][1];
int x=name[1][1];
cout<<x;

it returns an ASCII equivalent of 10, (if i input enter). why this difference occurs??
actually i am new to programming and want to learn getch() completely.
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kbw (1511)   Link to this post
The end of line is two characters on Windows, carrage return (13) then line feed (10). cin.get is stripping the line feed.

cin.get() converts <CR><LF> to <LF> to make it consistent with POSIX. For some reason, it doesn't do that with getch(), I don't know why.
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