NO.

Not exactly.

If you wanted you could declare a variable such as:

int myInteger;

than you could accept input from it such as:

cin >> myInteger;

then the user could enter an integer value

using characters is a poor yet somewhat successful practice

I created a function that accepts input as a character and then converts it to a specified value declared in the function

however this is only so that I can reduse the number of try catch exception handlers

if you are new to C++ I suggest following along with your book

before you try this function =P

don't want any confusion later on

but that was a good question

~ Geo

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