why does thsi misbehave at times?

[rahulmballal]

I have been doin C# for quite some time. When i am doing some console apps for my course assignments i use System.Console.Read(); as a replacement for the getch() that we used to do in C for making the cursor stop. so that the output window doesn close before i can see the output. It works at times and at times it doesnt! Please help me out folks cuz i have ended up using timers for a silly thing like that!! Rahul

[S Senthil Kumar]

Remember that console input is buffered, so if there are character in the buffer that were not yet consumed by your app, Console.Read will return immediately, returning the first character in the buffer. Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to clear the buffer using managed code, fflush(stdin); works for C++. Regards Senthil _____________________________ My Blog | My Articles | WinMacro

[Leather99]

Starting the project without Debug in VS2003 will prevent the console from closing until you press return. Also, have you tried Console.ReadLine()? This will only return when the user hits Return.