I want to send a pause command to the system like in C++: system("pause");
Or like in Ruby: `pause`

Something like that. I searched the library, but I haven't found it. I tough that it might be std.system, but it was only to check the OS at runtime.

On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 15:12:09 UTC, Borislav Kosharov wrote:
> I want to send a pause command to the system like in C++: system("pause");
> Or like in Ruby: `pause`
>
> Something like that. I searched the library, but I haven't found it. I tough that it might be std.system, but it was only to check the OS at runtime.

http://dlang.org/phobos/std_process.html#.execute ?

On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 15:21:43 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 15:12:09 UTC, Borislav Kosharov wrote:
>> I want to send a pause command to the system like in C++: system("pause");
>> Or like in Ruby: `pause`
>>
>> Something like that. I searched the library, but I haven't found it. I tough that it might be std.system, but it was only to check the OS at runtime.
>
> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_process.html#.execute ?

Oh nice, thanks. I see that process has many useful functons.

On 08/07/2013 08:12 AM, Borislav Kosharov wrote:
> I want to send a pause command to the system like in C++: system("pause");
> Or like in Ruby: `pause`
>
> Something like that. I searched the library, but I haven't found it. I
> tough that it might be std.system, but it was only to check the OS at
> runtime.

If you want to pause the current thread, there is Thread.sleep:

import std.stdio;
import core.thread;

void main()
{
    writeln("Good night.");
    Thread.sleep(3.seconds);
    writeln("Good morning.");
}

Ali

On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 22:06:16 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 08/07/2013 08:12 AM, Borislav Kosharov wrote:
>> I want to send a pause command to the system like in C++: system("pause");
>> Or like in Ruby: `pause`
>>
>> Something like that. I searched the library, but I haven't found it. I
>> tough that it might be std.system, but it was only to check the OS at
>> runtime.
>
> If you want to pause the current thread, there is Thread.sleep:
>
> import std.stdio;
> import core.thread;
>
> void main()
> {
>     writeln("Good night.");
>     Thread.sleep(3.seconds);
>     writeln("Good morning.");
> }
>
> Ali

No, I meant a different pause. It is the one that you send to the OS and it says:
Press any key to continue...

But thanks for showing me the sleep function.