Unbelievably Silly

From: R.N. Smith (mia01_at_keele.ac.uk)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:11:16 -0000

The following program, compiled with the GNU C++ compiler (actually g++)
fails to work.

Enter an integer and waits until a letter has been typed in. It then outputs
only the first digit of the integer read.

e.g. if we enter

1234 <return>
c<return>

the prog responds :-

number is 1

How can anything this simple go wrong ?

Rob

#include <iostream.h>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
  int i;
  cin>>i;
  cout << "number is " << i <<endl;
  return(0);
}

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