Ignore backspace key from stdin

Question

I want to make a program that forces it's user to input text but doesn't allow him to erase any of it, what's a simple way of doing it in C?

The only thing I've got is (c = getchar()) != EOF && c != '\b' which doesn't work. Any ideas?

Answer 1

POSIX - unix version

#include <sys/types.h>        
#include <termios.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int
 main()
{

         int fd=fileno(stdin);
         struct termios oldtio,newtio;
         tcgetattr(fd,&oldtio); /* save current settings */
         memcpy(&newtio, &oldtio, sizeof(oldtio));
         newtio.c_lflag = ICANON;
         newtio.c_cc[VERASE]   = 0;     /* turn off del */
         tcflush(fd, TCIFLUSH);
         tcsetattr(fd,TCSANOW,&newtio);
         /* process user input here */

         tcsetattr(fd,TCSANOW,&oldtio);  /* restore setting */
         return 0;        
}