How to put a delay in execution in a C program?

[ionicsachin]

Hiii,
I wanted to know how to put a delay of milliseconds or seconds at any step in a C program. On googling i came across sleep(), but its not a standard C funtion. Any suggestions?

[lucifer_is_back]

AFAIK there is no such standard function for putting delay
u have to be platform specific in this case

[clmlbx]

#include "stdio.h"
#include "time.h"
int main(void){
struct timespec t;
t.tv_sec = 0;
t.tv_nsec = 500000000;
while(1){
printf("Hello world!\n");
nanosleep(&t,NULL);
}
return 0;
}


NOT THAT GOOD IN C .. This I have copied from somewhere else

[xmentrio]

There is also delay(int msec) function in dos.h.
Try using it. It works.
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There is also delay(int msec) function in dos.h.
Try using it. It works.

[pr.itdude]

^^ +1
just include <dos.h>

and u can use this function "delay()" anywhere in any standard C program.

[lucifer_is_back]

Originally Posted by pr.itdude

^^ +1
just include <dos.h>

and u can use this function "delay()" anywhere in any standard C program.

[ashik.thomas]

Hai,
You can use delay(int n) defined in dos.h

[vamsi360]

are you looking in Debugginh case?

using Visual C++ you have more ease with debugging. Or use Geany and Mingw in Windows or Geany and gcc in Linux.

[anuvrat_parashar]

Originally Posted by pr.itdude

^^ +1
just include <dos.h>

and u can use this function "delay()" anywhere in any standard C program.

I think this one will only work for Turbo C/C++ compiler.

[ruturaj3]

yes, delay() function works well, u can used it in drawing animation or displaying msg, like calculating result and then after delay display d result.
Instead of directly printing output.