waiting for <RETURN>

Hi I'm coding a program to run under the console (UNIX) and need a way to hold the screen until the user hit's the <RETURN> key before proceeding. I have usually achieved this in other languages by just having a temp read in statement and it works fine but under C++ it behave differently.

This is the function I made:

Code:

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    void waitForReturnKey()
    {
        char temp;
        cout << "Press <RETURN> to continue..." << endl;
        cin >> temp;
    }

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But this requires the user to type a char, but all I want is the user to hit return without typing anything. Also the problem with this is that is the user enters more than 1 char then a bug occurs.

Try:

Code:

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char temp;
cin.get(temp);

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That will get the next character entered and then move on. So you'd need to have that in a loop to get return:

Code:

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char temp = 'a';

while(temp != '\n')
    cin.get(temp);

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...or something :)