[LillianIs]

I am a computer sc student, in the begining of my second year. We just took one course in programming which was c++.
We are begining a new course of data structure and our Doctor gave us a small assignment to search the "getche function", what is it, what is it used for and how to use it ?
so my problem is that I can not find something giving valuable info about the function..
so if you can help me with a link or an article that teach or explain it, that will be great.. but another point I can not do online confrences..

Thats it
Thanks
Lillian Is.

[Seta00]

getch and getche are functions used to get a single character from the DOS console.
They are not part of the standard, and should not be used.

getch gets a character from standard input and returns it.
getche does the same, but echoes the input character to the standard output.

There isn't a cross-platform solution to getch, but getche can be replaced by

aaa111, on 22 September 2010 - 07:49 AM, said:

cin.ignore(cin.rdbuf()->in_avail()+1);

Just to clarify the previous code:
istream::ignore reads N characters from the input and ignores them.
ios::rdbuf returns the stream buffer associated with the object
streambuf::in_avail returns the amount of characters available for reading

This post has been edited by Seta00: 22 September 2010 - 04:33 PM

[LillianIs]

what is the standard that they are not a part of ?
does the standard input means the user's input ?

i am sorry but Ididnt get it very well
may u please try and explain it in another way ?

Thanks alot for your help either ways

[simeesta]

LillianIs, on 24 September 2010 - 05:43 PM, said:

what is the standard that they are not a part of ?
does the standard input means the user's input ?

i am sorry but Ididnt get it very well
may u please try and explain it in another way ?

Thanks alot for your help either ways

There is a C++ Standard library that contains header files. getche(); is not in these header files, so is not part of the standard.

Yes standard input is the user's input - usually the keyboard.


Some addition info on getch(), getchar() and getche();


getche()