Xcode: entering user input when debugging

Question

int main()
{
    cout << "Buy or sell (b/s): " << endl;
    string buy_sell;
    cin >> buy_sell;
    .....
}

when i try to step through this in Xcode, i just stops at the cin >> buy_sell line, because it's waiting for the user input. How do i enter the value i want in the debugger so i can move past this? I'm using Xcode 3.2.1.

(I know i could just comment out the cin lines and define the variable in the code for debugging purposes, but that would be very tedious, and i feel like there should be an easy way to enter input that i just don't know about.)

Answer 1

Are you using the XCode console? You can access it under the "Run" menu, just below the Debugger. The shortcut is command-shift-R. From there you can interact with the application exactly like a terminal, but from inside of XCode itself.