in reply to Re^2: pre-texted <STDIN> with Term::ReadLine -- oneliner
in thread pre-texted <STDIN>

> If I were to just search for this, I could take days of looking at hints that it could do what I wanted

indeed! there is CPAN search but.. for all the remaining part there is perlmonks! ;)

Nothing like the experience from other users (not speaking about me), infact the perl community is one its best plus.

You can also find IO::Prompt an interesting solution (dunno atm if it can prefill input but you can adapt my example to it)

L*

PS changed the title for personal indexing matters

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