# Keyboard input monitoring

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/keyboard-input-monitoring/87078>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, io\
**Created:** [September 11, 2022, 1:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/keyboard-input-monitoring/87078 "2022-09-11T13:07:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/keyboard-input-monitoring/87078/6 "2022-09-11T15:39:53Z")

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You could run a get-input loop asynchronously from the main application task. E.g. the loop could `read(stdin, Char)` continually and put it into a Channel, which the main task could check periodically.

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