Re: pre-texted <STDIN>


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Re: pre-texted <STDIN>

by bart (Canon)

on Apr 04, 2020 at 12:15 UTC ( #11115037=note: print w/replies, xml )

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I'm going to take your title as a question, irrespective of any interpretation of what you really want to achieve. Can you instert extra text, say, from a text file, into the perl input via STDIN? Well, yes you can.

If you set @ARGV to the paths of a number of files, while(<>) will read the files instead of STDIN. But add "-" (that's a minus sign) as a file namen, and perl will also read from normal STDIN.

In summary: the following snippet will read a saved text file and input from STDIN.

@ARGV = ('grocery_list.txt', '-');
while(<>) {
    print " * $_";
}
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This will read from STDIN until you somehow terminate it: read from a finite pipe, or enter ctrl-D or ctrl-Z interactively, depending on the platform.

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Re^2: pre-texted <STDIN> by ShainEdge (Novice) on Apr 04, 2020 at 12:39 UTC
Not exactly. What I want to do, within the perl program, is take a $string, insert it into a STDIN-like function, have it user editable, and then save it back as a $string. So, what we are looking at is: $string = "this is a list". Insert that string in a real-time user-editable buffer. Then, have that edited string returned... such as "this is an 'edited' list." now in the $string variable	[reply]
Re^3: pre-texted <STDIN> by bart (Canon) on Apr 05, 2020 at 11:08 UTC
So you're talking about the console, not about STDIN. The module RL can, theoretically, do that; see `insert_test` and `stuff_char`. However, I've not yet succeeded in installing it using CPAN on Windows, as it's missing "readline.h", so I'd have to get a port of "readline" (GNU?) to Windows first. MinGW might have it, but that's about all I know.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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