Pausing screen on LINUX while using C++

[freakykanwar]

how do we pause screen on LINUX, till user presses any key..
like we use getch() in WINDOWS & getchar() in UNIX..

[horace1]

how do we pause screen on LINUX, till user presses any key..
like we use getch() in WINDOWS & getchar() in UNIX..

try getchar(); it should wait until you hit the ENTER key

[freakykanwar]

i had tried getchar() before posting my problem here.. the program seems not be reacting to this command.. getchar's presence & absence is similar..

[horace1]

i had tried getchar() before posting my problem here.. the program seems not be reacting to this command.. getchar's presence & absence is similar..

are you reading information from the keyboard (e.g. using scanf()) before attempting to pause. If so the last <enter> key character could be left in the input stream and when you call getchar(); to pause its reads the <enter> and the program carries on. If so you need a second getchar(), e.g.

    scanf("%d", &i);  // read some data
    getchar();   // read the last <enter> key
    getchar();   // pause for user to hit <enter>
 

the above code works OK under Suse linux 10.1

[freakykanwar]

are you reading information from the keyboard (e.g. using scanf()) before attempting to pause. If so the last <enter> key character could be left in the input stream and when you call getchar(); to pause its reads the <enter> and the program carries on. If so you need a second getchar(), e.g.

    scanf("%d", &i);  // read some data
    getchar();   // read the last <enter> key
    getchar();   // pause for user to hit <enter>
 

the above code works OK under Suse linux 10.1

with fflush(stdin) & two getchar()'s it has started working.. thanks a ton horace..

[Banfa]

with fflush(stdin) & two getchar()'s it has started working.. thanks a ton horace..

You shouldn't fflush stdin, it is undefined behaviour and thus very bad.

It is in fact undefined behaviour to fflush any input stream or update (read/write) stream whose most recent operation is a read.

Here is the appropriate section of the C standard

int fflush(FILE *ostream);

ostream points to an output stream or an update stream in which the
most recent operation was not input, the fflush function causes any
unwritten data for that stream to be delivered to the host environment to
be written to the file; otherwise, the behavior is undefined.