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Java, capturing a CTL-C in a hello world

I want to 'catch' when the user of my simple app hit's control C

I want to write a program that prints 'hello world" in an infinite loop, but trys to catch wehn a ctl C , or any other key, then prints that he is done and exits.

How can I do this

krakatoa

You'd have to wrap your code in a try - catch - finally block.

krakatoa

Here is some Q&D code for it :

import java.util.Scanner;



class TryCatchFinally_ContendingWithCTRL_C extends Thread
{
      public static void main (String [] args)
      {

            new TryCatchFinally_ContendingWithCTRL_C().start();
            Scanner keyIn = new Scanner(System.in);
            
            int n1 = 0;
           	              
                try{
                System.out.print("Enter a number: \n");
                n1 = keyIn.nextInt( );
            	}catch(Exception e){}finally{System.out.println("Finally caught when you pressed CTRL-C");}

      }

	public void run(){

		try{}catch(Exception e){}finally{System.out.println("Finally routine from run() method.");}

	}
}

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The class extends thread and outputs a string when run() comes to a natural end. But when you get the prompt on the screen to enter a number, instead of entering an int, hit CTRL-C, and you should get the result you want.

BUT beware - the finally part *ALWAYS* gets run, even if there was no exception.

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CEHJ

See http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Runtime.html#addShutdownHook(java.lang.Thread)

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ASKER

I tried the run() code, but when I hit a CTL-C, I still get the following

Terminate batch job (Y/N)? y

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krakatoa

No real idea what you mean by your last comment. Where did you ever mention a batch job being involved?