From 9c7d7772e676410bca2cf0ce4e202171e7cbf387 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Captain ALM <captainalm@captainalm.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 11:55:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Test loop and input error checking 1.

---
 main.cpp | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/main.cpp b/main.cpp
index 7e83ef8..33a48c8 100644
--- a/main.cpp
+++ b/main.cpp
@@ -1,11 +1,33 @@
 #include <iostream>
 
-std::string* test() {
-    static std::string tr {"test"};
-    return &tr;
-}
+using string = std::string;
+void ignoreTillLineEnd();
+string promptfs(string);
 
 int main()
 {
-    std::cout << *test();
+    string name {promptfs("Enter your name:")};
+    std::cout << "Hello " << name << "\n";
+    return 0;
+}
+
+void ignoreTillLineEnd() {
+    std::cin.ignore(std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max(), '\n');
+}
+
+string promptfs(string msg) {
+    bool once {false};
+    string toret {};
+    do {
+        if (once) {
+            std::cin.clear();
+            std::cout << "Input Failure!\n";
+        }
+        std::cout << msg << "\n";
+        std::cin >> toret;
+        ignoreTillLineEnd();
+        once = true;
+    }
+    while (std::cin.fail());
+    return toret;
 }