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Keyboard reading in Perl - character by character not line by line
If I'm typing in my age in response to a prompt and I start with a "6" character, will you assume that I'm between 60 and 69 years old? You might ... but then I may backspace (having accidentally struck the "6" key and start with a slightly lower digit. But in my program, I do NOT want to have to write my own code to deal with user inputs / errors of this type, and that is why most programming languages read up to and including a new line (a "commit") after which they return just the "cooked" or cleaned up string to the user. With Perl, "you can do anything" ... you may have heard that said before ... so it is possible to read character by character, using the underlying C language libraries "ioctl" and "fcntl". Which makes it operating system dependent. We have an example here ... and you'll find other examples of clever uses of Perl's IO on that page too, such as turning off echo for password entry, giving the user just a limited time to reply to a prompt, and checking whether or not an input is available before proceeding, rather than locking in a wait state for the keyboard. (written 2009-06-01) Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles P305 - Perl - User Input[2382] Giving up on user input - keyboard timeout in Perl - (2009-08-28) [2876] Different perl examples - some corners I rarely explore - (2010-07-18)
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Enjoying the summer weatherPast Delegate Offer - Summer Holiday / Weekend Break If nothing, make it nothing. Global Index to help you find resources Keyboard reading in Perl - character by character not line by line Dripping taps, Java threads and the single thread model Tcl/Tk - why does the canvas widget use a display list? MySQL server replication Monitoring and Tuning your MySQL installation A beautiful coastline |
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