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Timeline for Validating Yes/No answers in C++

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Nov 21, 2017 at 12:53 comment added USD Matt This is the first thing I thought of, and I'm sure i've used various "proper" utilities that work this way. You're asking the user to supply [y/n] in the question, and so it shouldn't come as a surprise that entering a string starting with y gets accepted as such. In my opinion trying to match a complete set of specific strings is a bit over-engineered for this.
Nov 21, 2017 at 1:40 comment added John3136 Yes it does - which is kind of in keeping with the original question plus mixtures, such as yeS, yES, which I didn't intend to accept but it's a consequence of my code - As I said it's the simple approach.
Nov 21, 2017 at 1:39 comment added Wes Toleman Unfortunately this returns true on inputs such as Yowsers!
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