Suppose I had a user that for whatever arbitrary reason should input n characters in a program, but I don''t want the user to have to hit enter in order for the program to begin processing what is read from the first two characters, then how is it done? It should be like as soon as the user hits the nth character the program starts working with it. I tried getchar() and cin.get() in a loop to read a character at a time up to a set limit and then go from there, but it obviously will not work without having to hit enter at the console each time. It seems so easy, but I can''t seem to find info anywhere on doing it.

Look up getch() (assuming you''re on Windows)

thanks kordova!

I solved my problem.

getch is ok, but getche is even better, because it echos back to the screen..

good thing vs.net include conio.h then.