From: Marcelo <marcelo.magallon@...>
Date: 2008-01-19T01:45:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Quit, if a specific key is hit

On Jan 18, 2008 4:19 AM, Pavankumar Kulkarni
<pavankumar_kulkarni@persistent.co.in> wrote:

> I found a platform independent solution to this in one of the comments
> of that link(below) here
> <http://www.rubyrailways.com/implementing-15-exercises-for-learning-a-new-programming-language/#comment-1145>.

 That does not fulfill the stated requirements, does it?
>
> i=0
> loop do
> begin
> break if STDIN.read_nonblock(1000)

 C defines stdin to be buffered, so characters will pile up in the
 buffer until an EOL is seen or the buffer is full.  It might be the
 case that some platform does not do this, but in general the program
 won't stop until you press a lot of keys or (usually), press enter.

 Marcelo