Getting rid of key repeat input

SDL Development
#1

I am having a bit of trouble with the arrow keys repeating when I don’t want them to. I have a keyboard function that is called during the game loop. It works as expected with the wasd keys which control directions. The problem is that when I use the arrow keys, which are expected to work the same, they repeat very quickly even though my condition is “if (e.type == SDL_KEYDOWN && e.key.repeat==0)”.
Somehow the arrow keys are still repeating even though the letter keys do not. I’m running on Ubuntu Linux but I don’t think that would make much of a difference. Is there something I missed?

void keyboard()
{
 int key;
 SDL_PollEvent( &e );
  if( e.type == SDL_QUIT ){loop=0; printf("X clicked! This program will close!\n");}
  if (e.type == SDL_KEYDOWN && e.key.repeat==0)
  {


   key=e.key.keysym.sym;

   switch(key)
   {
    case SDLK_ESCAPE:
    loop=0;
    break;

    case SDLK_z:
     block_rotate_left_basic();
    break;
    case SDLK_x:
     block_rotate_right_basic();
    break;
    case SDLK_c:
     block_hold();
    break;


    /*the main 4 directions*/
    case SDLK_KP_8:
    case SDLK_UP:
    case SDLK_w:
     tetris_move_up();
    break;
    case SDLK_KP_2:
    case SDLK_DOWN:
    case SDLK_s:
     tetris_move_down();
    break;
    case SDLK_KP_4:
    case SDLK_LEFT:
    case SDLK_a:
    tetris_move_left();
    break;
    case SDLK_KP_6:
    case SDLK_RIGHT:
    case SDLK_d:
     tetris_move_right();
    break;


    case SDLK_COMMA:
     tetris_load_state();
    break;
    case SDLK_PERIOD:
     tetris_save_state();
    break;

   }

  }

}
#2

You should put your SDL_PollEvent() call in a while loop.
If not, only the latest event that was put in the event queue will be processed, which might cause issues with taking input from the keyboard and other event-based issues.

while(SDL_PollEvent(&e))
{
	// Handle events
}