$input = if defined fileno(STDIN); #### ken@titan ~/tmp $ perl -E 'my $input = "none"; $input = if defined fileno(STDIN); say $input' qwerty qwerty ken@titan ~/tmp $ perl -E 'my $input = "none"; close STDIN; $input = if defined fileno(STDIN); say $input' none ken@titan ~/tmp #### C:\Users\ken\tmp>perl -E "my $input = 'none'; $input = if defined fileno(STDIN); say $input" qwerty qwerty C:\Users\ken\tmp>perl -E "my $input = 'none'; close STDIN; $input = if defined fileno(STDIN); say $input" none C:\Users\ken\tmp> #### PS C:\Users\ken\tmp> perl -E 'my $input = "none"; close STDIN; eval { defined fileno(STDIN) } and do { $input = }; say $input' none PS C:\Users\ken\tmp> perl -E 'my $input = "none"; $input = if defined fileno(STDIN); say $input' qwerty qwerty PS C:\Users\ken\tmp> perl -E 'my $input = "none"; close STDIN; $input = if defined fileno(STDIN); say $input' none PS C:\Users\ken\tmp> #### This is perl 5, version 30, subversion 0 (v5.30.0) built for cygwin-thread-multi This is perl 5, version 30, subversion 0 (v5.30.0) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread