Reading and displaying characters recursively

[AlSal]

I am having problems getting my procedure to read characters recursively to terminate. Can somebody help me here, I am not suppose to use arrays or lists. I have the following procedure:

void recursive()
{
	char c;
	cin>>c;
	cout<<c;
	recursive();
	return;
}

I also need to print the characters backwards.

[thoughtcoder]

Well... when do you want it to terminate?

[thoughtcoder]

And why are you asking a question like this in the wrong thread.

[AlSal]

I need it to terminate when the last character is found. It reads all the characters but simply does not find the end.

[AlSal]

And what thread should I use. I thought compilers fit into computer science

[thoughtcoder]

This is not a C++ question? This certainly isn't a compiler question...

[thoughtcoder]

So the question is: How to detect when last character found? You surely know how to do that? Well then, finding the recursive function that outputs them in reverse order is a simple matter of mentally stimulating exploration! Good luck!

[AlSal]

I know how to do the inverse order. What I am having problems is with the base case for the recursion.