How Can I avoid char input for an int variable?

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Reason for Infinite loop:

cin goes into a failed state and that makes it ignore further calls to it, till the error flag and buffer are reset.

cin.clear();
cin.ignore(100, '\n'); //100 --> asks cin to discard 100 characters from the input stream.

Check if input is numeric:

In your code, even a non-int type gets cast to int anyway. There is no way to check if input is numeric, without taking input into a char array, and calling the isdigit() function on each digit.

The function isdigit() can be used to tell digits and alphabets apart. This function is present in the <cctype> header.

An is_int() function would look like this.

for(int i=0; char[i]!='\0';i++){
    if(!isdigit(str[i]))
    return false;
}
return true;

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