How do I pause C command-line program?

First note that system() is a standard C-function, and as such is available to any C or C++ program (unless you are on a restricted embedded, erm, system, no pun intended).

Then you just need to find some replacement for the DOS command "Pause", for example

#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
system( "read -n 1 -s -p \"Press any key to continue...\"" );
return 0;
}

seems to do the trick...

Yup yup.. Nice work, Cohi! I totally forgot about the shell. Lets add a new line to that and ship it.

system( "read -n 1 -s -p "Press any key to continue..."; echo" );

Hey Tron, see if you can figure out how to get Cohi back here more often to help us!

- Ray

Something like this will print a prompt, then wait for a keystroke:

printf("Hit any key to continue> ");
getchar();

However in a console application, it's not so easy to prevent the user's keystrokes from being echoed. There are ways to turn the echo off for the keystroke then restore it, but those can depend on the environment. I'd need to know whether you're running your program in an Xcode console window, a Terminal window, or elsewhere. In short, don't go there unless it's quite important to you. The above prompt will show any chars that are keyed-in as text after the arrow, which is what a user would expect.

Hope that helps!
- Ray