Thread: Masking Characters In Scanf

i am at present working on an ATM paper in the IEEE transcation
the problem is i need t mask the characters that appear on the screen with a "*" when the user is entering the pin

i know that getpass could be used, but that only displays a blank
screen

can you please provide me a code that can mask a character simultaneouly as the user is entering a pin
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This cannot be done in a standard way. I think that if you use a console API (is that the right term?) like curses/ncurses you should be able to do that. I also think that there are win32 console functions that may let you do it but I'm not sure about that.

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