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