Character Input Without Delimiter

[zhig]

I'm looking for some way to grab a single character of input where the character is NOT displayed on the screen, and requires no delimiter. I mean, I want the user to press a key (nothing appears on the console), and the character is returned without hitting the enter key or any other delimiter.

I know there's something in conio.h, but it needs to be ANSI Standard as I'm on Linux.

Thanks in advance.

[laserlight]

No such thing exists in standard C and standard C++.

[kakalake]

For this purpose you can try to use the function _getch() defined in conio.h

[zhig]

Alright, thanks for the replies anyway.

@kakalake
Remember I said "I know there's something in conio.h, but it needs to be ANSI Standard as I'm on Linux."

[Lindley]

Check the ncurses library....not sure if that's precisely what you need, but I know it has a lot of similar types of stuff.

[toothyXdip]

Yeah ncurses has what you need. It has a no echo thingy.