Capture key press - console app

[Fishcake]

Is there a simple way of capturing a key press within a console app.

At the moment i'm doing this:

cout << "press any key to continue";
cin >> x;

but that looks messy as they first have to press a key, which is displayed after press any key to continue, and they then have to press enter/return aswell.

Cheers.

[jim mcnamara]

If you want the "Press any key to continue" kind of thing, where
the use just presses a key and the program goes on:

_getch()

         #include <conio.h>
         int ch;
         ch = _getch();

[CornedBee]

#include <stdlib.h>

void main()
{
system("pause");
}

[Fishcake]

Thanks you 2, I'm a bit disappointed i didn't think of the
system("pause") method myself though.

[abdul]

On Visual C++, system("pause") does not work either.

[Fishcake]

I'm using VC++ and it works fine in my console app. Although i've #include <cstdlib> instead of <stdlib.h> if that makes a difference.

[abdul]

I never tried "cstdlib.h". I think it'll work for me.

[parksie]

C:

#include <stdlib.h>

int main(void) {
    system("pause");
    return 0;
}

C++

#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

int main() {
    system("pause");
    return 0;
}