ive got caught in a forever loop

[Sokar]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I have devised a wee
menu system with 5 options. the way to select an option is to select
a number 1 - 5 and then there is a switch block to implement some code
depending on the selection. before the program goes into the switch i
have an if statement which checks the see if the input from the user
is greater than 5 "if(choice > 5)" if so then it calls the main
function and goes back to the start. If not then it goes into the
switch statement.

The problem is that if the user enters a letter as their choice
instead of a number the program goes into a forever loop and keeps
displaying the menu over and over again.

I was wondering if anyone know how I could test to see if the entry by
the user was either greater than 5 or not numerical in value.

Thanks and regards

John

[Victor Bazarov]

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