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Flush the keyboard buffer. This reads characters from the keyboard input and discards them until there are no more currently buffered, and then allows the program to continue. ''The program must not wait for users to type anything.'' |
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Revision as of 14:53, 15 October 2010
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Flush the keyboard buffer. This reads characters from the keyboard input and discards them until there are no more currently buffered, and then allows the program to continue. The program must not wait for users to type anything.
BASIC
ZX Spectrum Basic
<lang basic>10 IF INKEY$ <> "" THEN GOTO 10</lang>
PureBasic
<lang PureBasic>While Inkey()<>"": Wend </lang>
Tcl
<lang tcl># No waiting for input fconfigure stdin -blocking 0
- Drain the data by not saving it anywhere
read stdin
- Flip back into blocking mode (if necessary)
fconfigure stdin -blocking 1</lang>