C++: Unbuffered and unechoed input (ANSI compliant please)

[yomama]

I am looking to take unbuffered, unechoed input from the user.
The idea is to print "Press any key to continue" and allow the user to do just that, without having to press enter, and without having to see their character input displayed on screen.

I know I can do this with MS compilers by including conio.h, and calling getch().
However, I am looking for something that is part of the C standard library. I've searched all over, but have not found any info on this.

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

[Banfa]

I know I can do this with MS compilers by including conio.h, and calling getch().
However, I am looking for something that is part of the C standard library. I've searched all over, but have not found any info on this.

That is because there is no ANSI way to do this, all ANSI functions echo the data the receive.

[oler1s]

Actually, it's part of the default console behavior that input gets echoed. The standard libraries do not explicitly echo the input. The console does.

So if you want to robustly prevent that behavior, you need to look at the Windows Console Functions. They are part of the Windows API, so a search on MSDN should prove fruitful.

Or you could try and achieve it with a bunch of I/O hacks, but it's up to you.

[Banfa]

Actually, it's part of the default console behavior that input gets echoed. The standard libraries do not explicitly echo the input. The console does.

So if you want to robustly prevent that behavior, you need to look at the Windows Console Functions. They are part of the Windows API, so a search on MSDN should prove fruitful.

Good point however it leads to the same conclusion, which is that there is no ANSI compliant why to do it.

[yomama]

...there is no ANSI compliant why to do it.

That's too bad. Thanks.