Press any key to continue

Question

How can I simulate "Press any Key to continue" without press Enter Key?
For example:
- "Press any key to continue"
- press A key
- run program
I tried with System.in.read(), but It expected to press Enter key

Answer 1

That would require unbuffered input and as far as I know, there's no way to toggle buffered input in Java (at least not in a portable way) since it's largely platform dependent.

Perhaps there's a Java wrapper for the ncurses library or some other 3rd party equivalence that allows you to do that, but it may be a bit of an overkill in your situation. It's probably better to just roll with the punches.