# Quitting a loop by pressing 'q'

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/quitting-a-loop-by-pressing-q/104028
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [September 19, 2023, 3:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/quitting-a-loop-by-pressing-q/104028 "2023-09-19T15:17:06Z")
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### Author: ![Zentrik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/zentrik/32/35409_2.png) [@Zentrik](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Zentrik)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2023, 3:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/quitting-a-loop-by-pressing-q/104028/6 "2023-09-19T15:59:27Z")

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You could run it as a async task, some similar questions here [Keyboard input monitoring - #6 by cjdoris](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/keyboard-input-monitoring/87078/6), [How to Detect Key Down Events? - #2 by albheim](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-detect-key-down-events/95011/2)

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