Ignoring characters entered after the first one [cin]

Question

So I have the following code snippet:

cout << "Enter input: " <<endl;
cin  >> input;

I want to just check the first character that the user enters, but the user is supposed to enter multiple characters. If I use a try block to check the user input, the block repeats for each character entered after the first one. How I can I solve this problem?

Answer 1

Since you tagged it C++, I'll assume input is a std::string . Try input[0] . This should return the first character.