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Re: Pre-populating <STDIN> with a default value

by belg4mit (Prior)
on Dec 24, 2008 at 01:58 UTC ( [id://732400]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Pre-populating <STDIN> with a default value

The conventional method is to simply show the default in brackets and use that if the response is empty. You could also probably work something bass-ackwards out with FileHandle::Unget

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