[Chicago-talk] how to recreate keystoke lost in cbreak?

[Steven Lembark]

-- Richard Reina <richard at rushlogistics.com>

> 
> I have a program that attemps to detect user inactivity with the
> following code.
>  
>  use Term::Readkey;
>       ReadMode('cbreak');
>      unless(my $key = ReadkKey(20)) { 


Push the scope of $key out of the if-block into the main
loop:

    my $key = '';

    unless( $key = ReadKey(...) )
    {
        ...
    }
    else
    {
        ...
    }

    # $key is still available here for
    # processing.


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