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How to have all the inputs on the same line C++

I was asked to enter an hour and a minute on the same line. But when I enter the hour, it automatically goes to a new line, and I'm only able to enter the minute on the next line. However, I want to enter the hour and minute on the same line with a colon between them. It should look like this 

Time: 4:54

But my code produces this:

Time: 4

54

cout << "\n\tTime: "; 
cin >> timeHours;
cin.get();
cin >> timeMinutes;
Solution

  • The behavior depends on the input provided by the user.

    Your code works as you want, if the user would enter everything (e.g.14:53) on the same line and press enter only at the end:

    Demo 1

    Now you can have a better control, if you read a string and then interpret its content, for example as here: 

    string t; 
cout << "\n\tTime: "; 
cin >> t;
stringstream sst(t);
int timeHours, timeMinutes;
char c; 
sst>>timeHours>>c>>timeMinutes;

    Demo 2