Thread: Difference between getch() and getchar()

Hi,

I was recently porting a Windows app to FreeBSD, and I realised that the getch() function is not available in UNIX.

In the FAQ board it says that there is no UNIX equivalent to getch() from conio.h and gives a code snippet to use instead.

I succesfully replaced all occurences of getch() with getchar() from stdio.h with no problems.

I'm sure there must be a difference, otherwise kermi3 wouldn't have said what he did. Can anyone tell me the difference, and why getchar() is not a direct equivalent of getch()?

http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showthread.php?t=27714

Thanks,

Daniel

Hi,
I am not an expert on this, but I had a problem with this in the past. I know the main difference between getche() and getchar() is that with getche() you don't need to press Enter after entering a character. So, as a student, in my opinion, I just use getche() as a convenience feature. Interested what others have to say on this too.

Yev

theres a getch() if you have ncurses installed. (on linux)