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# PromptPlus ## **Confirm** [](https://www.nuget.org/packages/PromptPlus) [](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) [](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/)

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A yes/no question. The user presses the culture-specific Yes or No key and the control returns immediately.

Confirm is a preset of the KeyPress control. It returns the very same IKeyPressControl interface and behaves identically — the only difference is that the Yes and No keys for the current culture are already registered as valid keys for you, so the user can only answer with Yes or No.

🔑 Because Confirm is a KeyPress, its full API reference lives on the KeyPress pages. This page focuses on the yes/no pattern and how to read the result. See Methods, Operations, and Styles here for the short version with links to the shared reference.

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On this page

Sub-page	What you will find
Index (this page)	The yes/no pattern and how to interpret the return value
Methods	The shared IKeyPressControl API (links to the KeyPress reference)
Operations	Runtime behavior (links to the KeyPress reference)
Styles	The KeyPressStyles regions (links to the KeyPress reference)

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When to use it

Use Confirm when…	Consider instead…
You need a plain yes/no answer	—
You need a different single-key choice (A / B / C)	KeyPress
You need to pick from a labelled list	Select

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The yes/no pattern

using PromptPlusLibrary;

var confirm = PromptPlus.Controls
    .Confirm("Apply changes?")
    .Run();

if (confirm.IsAborted)
{
    PromptPlus.Console.WriteLine("Cancelled.");
}
else if (confirm.Content is { } k &&
         char.ToUpperInvariant(k.KeyChar) == char.ToUpperInvariant(PromptPlus.Config.YesChar))
{
    PromptPlus.Console.WriteLine("Yes — applying changes.");
}
else
{
    PromptPlus.Console.WriteLine("No — nothing changed.");
}

• Confirm("Apply changes?") creates the control with the culture Yes/No keys pre-registered.
• .Run() returns a ResultPrompt<ConsoleKeyInfo?> — exactly like KeyPress, not a bool.
• To decide yes vs. no, compare the pressed KeyChar to PromptPlus.Config.YesChar. Anything else that reached .Content (the No key) is a “no”.

💡 The Yes/No keys follow the current culture. In en-US they are Y/N; setting PromptPlus.Config.DefaultCulture to another culture (e.g. pt-BR) switches them to that culture’s letters, and PromptPlus.Config.YesChar / NoChar reflect the active pair.

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Return value

Confirm returns ResultPrompt<ConsoleKeyInfo?> — identical to KeyPress.

Member	Meaning
.Content	The pressed key as a nullable ConsoleKeyInfo? (no value when aborted)
.IsAborted	true when the user pressed Esc / the abort key

Interpret it with the Yes-char comparison shown above:

static bool IsYes(ResultPrompt<ConsoleKeyInfo?> r) =>
    !r.IsAborted &&
    r.Content is { } k &&
    char.ToUpperInvariant(k.KeyChar) == char.ToUpperInvariant(PromptPlus.Config.YesChar);

Always branch on .IsAborted first — an aborted confirm has no .Content value and is neither “yes” nor “no”.

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Prompt and description

Like KeyPress, Confirm takes an optional prompt, description, and showresult flag:

PromptPlus.Controls
    .Confirm("Apply changes", "Press the culture-specific Yes/No key")
    .Run();

IKeyPressControl Confirm(string prompt = "", string? description = null, bool showresult = false)

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See also

• KeyPress — the general control Confirm is built on
• Methods — the shared API (linked to the KeyPress reference)
• Operations — runtime behavior
• Styles — the KeyPressStyles regions
• Global Behaviors — YesChar, NoChar, DefaultCulture

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