Myself I sometimes have some problems with the standard libraries, when they don't do what I really want. So I reinvent the wheel and write my own libraries. I barely never anymore use any containers in the standard library collection.

You can stop the loop with the keyword "break". The loop will also end if the while expression result is false.

Basically something like this.

int data;
while(1) {
    std::cout << "Pass a number: ";
    std::cin >> data;
    if(data == 0) {
        break; // end the infinite loop because 0 was passed into data.
    } else {
        // Do something else with the number
    }
}

Your code works too.

In C++

std::cin for input and std::cout for output from iostream

In C

scanf() for input and printf() for output from stdio.h

No no-one from DIC has been in my dream, but I hate dreams where i'm tracing a bug line by line.. The whole dream is just seeing a console input of a program code, so fucking annoying.

Though my latest dream was so that some terrorists had invaded Finland for some reason and for some reason my mother had become epic biologist and they wanted her to create a bioweapon for them. Well the Rrussians and Americans we're in Finland with full force too and the Russians kidnapped me while I was sneaking around the building which the terrorists had taken as their base. Then the russian general interrigoated me and I said to him "I'm finnish and do i look like some terrorist who would know their plans?" the general answered no and let me go, but they kept surveilling me and as i sneaked to the terrorist base the russians came soon after me and killed the terrorists. Afterwards the Russians badmouthed the Americans for being so slow. Though only thing i wonder, where the fuck the finnish army was in my dream.

g++ is awesome compiler. I use it daily on Linux myself. Though it is not full blown integrated development environment like visual studio but just a compiler.