my @lines = <STDIN>;

##</code><code>##

{
   local($SIG{INT}) = 'IGNORE';
   @lines = <STDIN>;
}

##</code><code>##

#!perl -w
use strict;
use threads;

my @lines;
print "Enter CTRL-C to end input\n";
$SIG{INT} = 'IGNORE'; # making this local() causes ctrl-C to kill the script
@lines = <STDIN>;
threads->create( sub{} )->join();
$SIG{INT} = 'DEFAULT';  # putting this after thread creation makes everything happy
chomp @lines; # kill newlines from STDIN entries

print "Enter CTRL-C to exit\n";
local($") = ', ';
while ( 1 )
{
   print "You entered: @lines\n";
   sleep(1);
}