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[Nicholas O. R. <exc...@mi...>]

I've never actually found a function that would tell whether or not 
there is another character on the buffer... you might be able to rig up 
something with the functions in wincon.h or conio.h; I've never tried.  
However, you can use "cin.peek()" to read the next character on the 
input buffer without extracting it from the buffer.  You can also 
extract a character with "cin.get()" and then put it back onto the 
buffer with "cin.putback()" or "cin.unget()".  You could probably also 
use "cin.sync()" instead of "cin.ignore()" -- it doesn't require that 
any characters be on the buffer before it sweeps them all away, so you 
don't have to worry about it eating input meant for a "cin.getline()".

Nicholas