keeping the console window open to see your program

[UKMuFFiN]

Sorry for the title, was hard to explain my question in a title. Its prob not even the right forum to put it in :S

Im learnign c++, and when you start you make simple programs that run in a console window, but when you run the program if its something simple like for example, the "Hello World!" you don't see it because obviously the computer does it so fast when it gets to the program it closes. You can obviously put another std::cin at the end so the program needs something entered before it ends but none of the tutorials have this and they never say anything about the console closing. So is there a setting or somthing for command promt i can change for it to stay open after a program is run?

Cheers.

[Steve B]

put getch() at the end just before return 0; that should do it

[UKMuFFiN]

Cheers Lol, i just noticed this is in the connectivity - broadband & networking forum :S.

I thought i put it in the binarys one. Ooops.

[skuzgib]

You could also add

system("PAUSE");

[aidanjt]

char quit;
while (quit != 'q') {
    quit << cin;
}
return 0;

that's why i usually do, or something to that effect to control returning main, i prefer that as it's proper standard, and adjustable to suit interactive programs.

[UKMuFFiN]

So why don't books/tutorials, esp ones that know your running your first progs in cmd tell you that it will close before you even see it run?

std::cout << "ta for all the help.";

[aidanjt]

Technically it doesn't, ANSI/ISO C++ expects you to have a terminal open already, i.e. start->run, type "cmd" enter, and run it there. Windows (and other DEs) close the terminal windows after main() returns, if it opened the terminal, whether the return value be a zero or non-zero value. So it's pretty much a Windows cravet with commandline software.

And most welcome