How to simulate Window's "Press any key to continue..."

[Mike Parker]

On Friday, 22 November 2019 at 04:45:21 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Friday, 22 November 2019 at 04:22:07 UTC, 
> FireController#1847 wrote:
>
>> Right, but readln will only wait until the user presses the 
>> delimiter (by default Enter/Return). I want it to wait until 
>> ANY key is pressed, not a specific key
>
> The documentation for std.stdio.File shows two functions for 
> reading input: readln and readf. If readln isn't what you want, 
> then readf probably is:
>
> https://dlang.org/phobos/std_stdio.html#.File.readf
>
> Also, there's a freely available book online to help get you up 
> to speed: Programming in D. Here's the section on reading from 
> stdin with readf:
>
> http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/input.html

Sorry, I just noticed the book doesn't cover how to do what you 
want and it's probably not obvious. You need to call readf with a 
character format string (%c):

import std.stdio;
void main()
{
     writeln("Press any key to continue...");

     char c;
     readf("%c", &c);
     writeln("Thanks!");
}