Hello, I want to write a program that receives data from the input and terminates the program as soon as the space key is pressed. I wrote the following program: function space() print("Please write something: ") ch = 'a' while ch != ' ' ch = read(stdin, Char) end end spac…

Hi, Thank you so much. Isn’t there an easier way? This is easier to do in other programming languages like C++.

Reading characters until the space key is pressed

rafael.guerra December 3, 2024, 12:34pm 2

You need to use the tricks linked in this other thread.

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