From: "Barr, Keith" Date: 2007-08-26T05:05:50+09:00 Subject: Newbie questions --Boundary_(ID_cjdMwiw/0WtJODjPmwiKBw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hi there, I am new to using Ruby and I am writing my first real programs and I have something I was wonndering about: I have a menu that I would like users to respond to simply by entering a single character. I have tried both STDIN.getc and gets, but both require a carriage return. Is there a command I haven't found that will actively read STDIN to process a single character as soon as it is entered? Thanks in advance, Keith --Boundary_(ID_cjdMwiw/0WtJODjPmwiKBw)--