RE: [PHP-DEV] Unbuffered fgetc needed for stdin

Doh... That's right. Stream input is usually buffered. Futzing with tty is pretty ugly I think (stty/ioctl)... On further reflection it seems that the getting a wrapper for ncurses or cdk would be a real nice win for PHP. Perl's got a cdk module, think Python has a ncurses wrapper. If they have reasonable license terms might be easy to use those as a starting point for a php wrapper. Wrapping these ncurses / cdk would be a nice add for PHP on the commandline. Unfortunatly don't have the time to attempt something like this. -AZ > -----Original Message----- > From: Andi Gutmans [mailto:andi@zend.com] > Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 1:34 PM > To: August Zajonc; php-dev@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Unbuffered fgetc needed for stdin > > > This usually depends on how you configured your tty. I think by > default it > is buffered by the OS until a newline so it's probably not PHP > which needs > changing but your settings. > > Andi > > At 12:30 PM 12/15/2001 -0800, August Zajonc wrote: > >I've really run into a wall trying to get single charachters from stdin. > > > >Something similar to the getchar macro or a real fgetc would be nice. > > > >The current behavior is that more than a signle charachter can > be typed and > >fgetc only returns when it sees a "\n". > > > >I'd like it to return immediatly after the first charachter. > > > >fscanf with a format string something like "%c" requires a "\n" before > >returning as well, though I suppose that is more understandable. > > > >various things like fread with length of 1 also don't work. > > > >This is missing functionality for which there is no workaround that would > >certainly make shell scripting easier. It should be relativly trivial to > >implement, either an unbuffered fgetc option or a new function > or something. > > > >-AZ > > > > > >-- > >PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > >For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >