Detecting keystrokes

Question

I need to detect a keystroke, without the user pressing enter. What\'s the most elegant way?

I.e. If the user hits the letter Q, without pressing ent

Answer 1

Theres no good way to do this portably, as far as I know, other than to use a library like ncurses, which provides the getch(void) function.

Note: It appears getchar(void) from stdio.h waits until the enter key is pressed then feeds your the characters,s o it won't work.