Capture key press - console app

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.

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()

Code:

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

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#include <stdlib.h>

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

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

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

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.

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

C:

Code:

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#include <stdlib.h>

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

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C++

Code:

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#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

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

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