• WhatMeWorry (24/24) Jul 23 2016 What I thought would be trivial is becoming a nightmare. Can
• Zekereth (7/10) Jul 23 2016 Use the getchar() function.
• lqjglkqjsg (2/14) Jul 25 2016 just call std.stdio.stdin.read() and ignore the result...

WhatMeWorry <kheaser gmail.com> writes:

What I thought would be trivial is becoming a nightmare. Can 
anybody set me straight.  Thanks in advance.

void writeAndPause(string s)
{
     writeln(s);
     // writeln("Press any key to continue...");  // works fine on 
Windows
     // executeShell("pause");                    // works fine on 
Windows

I tried the following read command and it works great in a Ubuntu 
shell:
read -rsp $'Press any key to continue...\n' -n 1 key

but when I put it in executeShell it doesn't pause and returns

executeShell(`read -rsp $'Press any key to continue...\n' -n 1 
key`);
executeShell("read -rsp $'Press any key to continue...\n' -n 1 
key");

returns /bin/sh: 1: read: Illegal option -s


I tried the spawnShell...

auto pid = spawnShell(`read -n1 -r -p "Press any key to 
continue..." key`);
wait(pid);

  returns  /bin/sh: 1: read: Illegal option -n
}

Zekereth <viserion.thrall gmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 23 July 2016 at 19:08:00 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote:
 What I thought would be trivial is becoming a nightmare. Can 
 anybody set me straight.  Thanks in advance.

 [...]

Use the getchar() function.

void pause(const string msg = "Press enter/return to continue...")
{
	write(msg);
	getchar();
}

lqjglkqjsg <lqjglkqghjghjjsg lkdsf.od> writes:

On Sunday, 24 July 2016 at 00:54:21 UTC, Zekereth wrote:
 On Saturday, 23 July 2016 at 19:08:00 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote:
 What I thought would be trivial is becoming a nightmare. Can 
 anybody set me straight.  Thanks in advance.

 [...]

 Use the getchar() function.

 void pause(const string msg = "Press enter/return to 
 continue...")
 {
 	write(msg);
 	getchar();
 }

just call std.stdio.stdin.read() and ignore the result...