About use with getch() (or _getch() if you program for windows) and cout: try to put a call to cout.flush() before your getch() call, since that will flush all cout streams currently in the buffer. I don''t know why you have to do that before getch() specifically, but it works for me.

A good way to seed rand() (again, in WIN32) is to make this call: srand(GetTickCount()). This function is in the windows headers, and it measures the system time in milliseconds if I am not mistaken. This pretty much makes sure that rand()''s output will be different each time.

Thanks for the help guys. I''ve got it working right now.

I tried waht grul suggested with the cout.flush() but that didn''t work so bearing in mind what Rotter and anonymous poster said I used cin.get() and cin.ignore() but this meant the user had to press enter twice, so I just put cin.get on and that works.

Thanks for the help again,
Crash

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