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how to handle key press event in console application

a simple question.

I am writing a simple text based adventure game for fun and I am stuck on the first part already! How can I make my console check for key presses I.E: press enter to continue!

Answer 1

You can use

Console.ReadKey();

To read 1 key. You could then do something like this:

string key = Console.ReadKey().Key.ToString();
if(key.ToUpper() == "W")
    Console.WriteLine("User typed 'W'!");
else 
    Console.WriteLine("User did not type 'W'");

Or:

if(key == "")
    Console.WriteLine("User pressed enter!");
else
    Console.WriteLine("User did not press enter.");

And if you do not care if the user types anything but presses enter after, you could just do:

// Some code here
Console.ReadLine();
// Code here will be run after they press enter