when are characters stored in the Buffer

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I just want to know when are characters that sb enter from the keyboard stored in the buffer? I mean : when the character key is pressed, or when enter is pressed, or there is another timing? my question is especially for c++ Console apps, but it will be even better if the answers contained every case, or a general case!

thanks a lot :)

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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This will depend on the specific console in question.

Even though they are for different languages, same rules apply to as how the terminal/environment feeds your program with data on standard input:

This thread supposedly has a working example for Visual Studio.

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answered Nov 14 '10 at 07:27

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if I have to specify, I mean Visual c++ 6.0 and Microsoft Visual c++ 2008 – Tamer Shlash Nov 14 '10 at 07:29
As I wrote, same rules apply to all console applications. – aioobe Nov 14 '10 at 07:30

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