Keyboard input/Obtain a Y or N response

Keyboard input/Obtain a Y or N response is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.

Obtain a valid Y or N response from the keyboard. The keyboard should be flushed, so that any outstanding keypresses are removed, preventing any exiting Y or N keypress from being evaluated. The response should be obtained as soon as Y or N are pressed, and there should be no need to press an enter key.

BASIC

ZX Spectrum Basic

10 IF INKEY$<>"" THEN GOTO 10
20 PRINT "Press Y or N to continue"
30 LET k$ = INKEY$
40 IF k$ = "y" OR k$ = "Y" OR k$ = "n" OR k$ = "N" THEN GOTO 60
50 GOTO 30
60 PRINT "The response was "; k$

PureBasic

Inkey() returns the character string of the key which is being pressed at the time. <lang PureBasic>PrintN("Press Y or N to continue")

Repeat

 ; Get the key being pressed, or a empty string.
 Key$=UCase(Inkey())
 ;
 ; To Reduce the problems with an active loop
 ; a Delay(1) will release the CPU for the rest
 ; of this quanta if no key where pressed.
 Delay(1)

Until Key$="Y" Or Key$="N" PrintN("The response was "+Key$)</lang>

Tcl

<lang tcl>proc yesno Template:Message "Press Y or N to continue" {

   fconfigure stdin -blocking 0
   exec stty raw
   read stdin ; # flush
   puts -nonewline "${message}: "
   flush stdout
   while {![eof stdin]} {
       set c [string tolower [read stdin 1]]
       if {$c eq "y" || $c eq "n"} break
   }
   puts [string toupper $c]
   exec stty -raw
   fconfigure stdin -blocking 1
   return [expr {$c eq "y"}]

}

set yn [yesno "Do you like programming (Y/N)"]</lang>