INKEY

INKEY$

INKEY$

Returns the key which has been pressed, or if no key has been pressed, an empty string. Note that this function will use the keyboard buffer, so if multiple keys have been pressed between this call and the last call to INKEY$ (or an INPUT statement) it will require multiple calls to the function to receive all of the keypresses.

The following keys on the keyboard are designated as 'extended keys' and will return the following character codes from INKEY$:

Key	INKEY$ value
PAGEUP	245
PAGEDOWN	246
DEL	47
INS	48
END	49
UP	250
DOWN	251
LEFT	252
RIGHT	253
HOME	254