How to hold the console open in C?

Question

What is a 'nice' standard way of holding the console open in C? I'm looking for something similar to cin.clear(), cin.get(); in C++.

Answer 1

puts("Press <enter> to quit:");
getchar();

That's assuming you need to do this in the program, which is probably not a good idea in general. And if I run your program from a shell, I'm going to be a bit annoyed at the extra step when I'm expecting the program to terminate nicely and let me have my next prompt.

Answer 2

I use the below 2 lines of code.

printf("Press ENTER key to Continue\n");
getchar();