Experimenting on User Input....

[Meerkat]

Hi again!

I am trying this as user input:

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@echo off
for /f %%i in ('sc ^>nul') do echo %%i
pause

It has an advantage that it can handle Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Z, and some other "special" chars. It also does not echo the CRLF.
Sample Output (Pressing Ctrl+C):

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♥Press any key to continue . . .

Now, I will try to NOT print the char and store it instead to a variable. I tried this,

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@echo off
for /f %%i in ('sc ^>nul') do set "key=%%i" >nul

But when I press something (again, Ctrl+C), it still displays the char pressed!
Output:

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♥

EDIT:
It also does not store the char to the "key" variable.

Is there a way to not display the key pressed? Thanks everyone!!!

Meerkat

[dbenham]

It appears that SC prints the character directly to the console, without going through stdout or stderr. So there is no way to capture the character
Note how the following still prints the pressed character to the screen:

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sc >nul 2>nul

Dave Benham

[Meerkat]

So there is really no way to redirect CON to Stdout/StdErr?

Meerkat

[OperatorGK]

Strangely, this doesn't do anything on my Win10. What Windows version you are using?

[foxidrive]

Strangely, this doesn't do anything on my Win10. What Windows version you are using?

Could it be because the default console font doesn't have a glyph for the control c character?
I can't test it here - just raising the idea.

[Meerkat]

Strangely, this doesn't do anything on my Win10. What Windows version you are using?

Just type SC in the console first if it exists.

Meerkat

[foxidrive]

What Windows version you are using?

FWIW I tested it on XP pro, Win 7 and Win 8.1

[Meerkat]

There is really no way to catch the character being pressed from SC?

[Squashman]

As far as I know, everything going to con, gets output on the console.

[dbenham]

As far as I know, everything going to con, gets output on the console.

Translation - No, it cannot be captured in a variable

[Meerkat]

As far as I know, everything going to con, gets output on the console.

Translation - No, it cannot be captured in a variable

Oh... Sorry

BTW, Thanks everyone!

Meerkat

[OperatorGK]

Strangely, this doesn't do anything on my Win10. What Windows version you are using?

Just type SC in the console first if it exists.

Meerkat

I meant, SC exists and works, but "for..." command simply doesn't do anything.

[foxidrive]

I meant, SC exists and works, but "for..." command simply doesn't do anything.

Did you press control c ?