mitchreward has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi monks,
is there a way to read from stdin withou waiting for CR?
like this tricks in bash: read -t 1 -n 1

thanks

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Re: read from stdin
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 05, 2014 at 14:23 UTC

    See Term::ReadKey.

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      perfect, thanks!
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