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I haven't used Term::Prompt, but I did throw this little demo thing together for a former coworker many moons ago. It was written for use on a Unix but should run on WIN (using a WIN cmd obviously) if Term::ReadKey and Term::ReadLine are installed. Note this was written many moons ago, thus no "-w" or "use strict". Hope this might be of some use to you.
#!/usr/bin/perl use Term::ReadLine; use Term::ReadKey; $in = new Term::ReadLine 'LABEL'; $inval = ""; $prompt = " Enter a Unix command. Enter 'quit' to bailout.\n\n -> "; while ( $inval eq "" ) { $inval = $in->readline($prompt); } if ($inval ne "quit") { #Do this print "You entered: $inval\n"; system("$inval"); } else { print "You said to quit.\n\nBye!\n"; $quit = confirm("quit"); if ($quit eq "n") { print "Decided not to quit I see.\n"; } else { print "OK, OK, I'm quitting...\n"; } } pressanykey(); ################################################################## ################################################################## # SUB: Global Sub-Routines ####################################### ################################################################## ################################################################## ##################### # SUB: Clear Screen # ##################### sub clear { system("clear"); } ###################### # SUB: Press Any Key # ###################### sub pressanykey { print "\n Press any key to continue...\n"; ReadMode ('cbreak'); while (1) { $key = ReadKey(0); last; } ReadMode 'restore'; } ##################### # SUB: Confirmation # ##################### sub confirm { my($action, $key) = @_; clear(); print "\n Are you sure you want to $action? (y/n)"; ReadMode ('cbreak'); while (1) { $key = lc(ReadKey(0)); last unless defined $key; last if (($key eq "y") || ($key eq "n" )); } ReadMode 'restore'; clear(); return($key); }


-THRAK
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In reply to Re: cross-platform timeout on user input by THRAK
in thread cross-platform timeout on user input by ybiC

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