[c] "Press Any Key to Continue" function in C

How do I create a void function that will work as "Press Any Key to Continue" in C?

What I want to do is:

printf("Let the Battle Begin!\n");
printf("Press Any Key to Continue\n");
//The Void Function Here
//Then I will call the function that will start the game

I'm compiling with Visual Studio 2012.

You can try more system indeppended method: system("pause");

Use getch():

printf("Let the Battle Begin!\n");
printf("Press Any Key to Continue\n");
getch();

Windows alternative should be _getch().

If you're using Windows, this should be the full example:

#include <conio.h>
#include <ctype.h>

int main( void )
{
    printf("Let the Battle Begin!\n");
    printf("Press Any Key to Continue\n");
    _getch();
}

P.S. as @Rörd noted, if you're on POSIX system, you need to make sure that curses library is setup right.

Try this:-

printf("Let the Battle Begin!\n");
printf("Press Any Key to Continue\n");
getch();

getch() is used to get a character from console but does not echo to the screen.

You don't say what system you're using, but as you already have some answers that may or may not work for Windows, I'll answer for POSIX systems.

In POSIX, keyboard input comes through something called a terminal interface, which by default buffers lines of input until Return/Enter is hit, so as to deal properly with backspace. You can change that with the tcsetattr call:

#include <termios.h>

struct termios info;
tcgetattr(0, &info);          /* get current terminal attirbutes; 0 is the file descriptor for stdin */
info.c_lflag &= ~ICANON;      /* disable canonical mode */
info.c_cc[VMIN] = 1;          /* wait until at least one keystroke available */
info.c_cc[VTIME] = 0;         /* no timeout */
tcsetattr(0, TCSANOW, &info); /* set immediately */

Now when you read from stdin (with getchar(), or any other way), it will return characters immediately, without waiting for a Return/Enter. In addition, backspace will no longer 'work' -- instead of erasing the last character, you'll read an actual backspace character in the input.

Also, you'll want to make sure to restore canonical mode before your program exits, or the non-canonical handling may cause odd effects with your shell or whoever invoked your program.