[ABE.pm] Prompting users

Ricardo SIGNES rjbs-perl-abe at lists.manxome.org
Fri Oct 5 11:03:02 PDT 2007


* Walt Mankowski <waltman at pobox.com> [2007-10-05T13:28:20]
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 01:19:02PM -0400, Faber J. Fedor wrote:
> > 
> > What's the best way to prompt for user input a la CPAN?  
> > Use $name = <STDIN>?
> 
> It appears to use Term::ReadLine (or maybe one of its subclasses; it's
> a bit complicated).  Just search for "sub shell" to see how it works.

IO::Prompt is pretty neat, although I recall having problems using it on 5.6.
You might not care.

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rjbs


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