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c / c++ question

Khannie · 2006-01-20 08:26:31

ok, I want to read from stdin, one character at a time. I don't want to wait for the '\n'. getc() waits for \n. cin.get(c) waits for \n, etc. etc. Any googling turns up getc(), but it's obviously not what I want (as I want to validate input as it's coming in). This is just p*ssing me off now. :/

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20-01-2006 9:26am

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Khannie

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ok, I want to read from stdin, one character at a time. I don't want to wait for the '\n'. getc() waits for \n. cin.get(c) waits for \n, etc. etc.

Any googling turns up getc(), but it's obviously not what I want (as I want to validate input as it's coming in).

This is just p*ssing me off now.

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#2 20-01-2006 10:06am
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Check out getch() and getche(), but be aware that they're not ANSI-compliant.

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#3 20-01-2006 9:29pm
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cin.peek() and cin.ignore() may help you ... leave the fun bits up to you!

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