Input problem with Enter key...

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Input problem with Enter key... by Marshall (Canon) on Nov 07, 2016 at 02:37 UTC
I sincerely doubt that XP or Strawberry has anything to do with this! This very simple program should work on any version of Perl and on any platform! `use warnings; use strict; print "type something: "; my $input = <STDIN>; print "you typed", $input; # of course: # print "you typed $input"; # would be the same` [download] I don't know if you are using some kind of development environment to run the code or not? Save this .pl file verbatim and run it from the Windows XP command line - not from within any development environment. Before posting, I tested this on Win XP to avoid a typo problem. I am using an Active State build, but that shouldn't matter in the slightest.	[reply] [d/l]
Input problem with Enter key... by PriNet (Monk) on Nov 07, 2016 at 02:45 UTC
i'm going to try the suggested reboot... I hadn't tried that yet because i was watching this post, but i have a way around that here... I tried re-inventing the wheel again, but everytime I push it, it still falls flat on it's side...	[reply]
Input problem with Enter key... by PriNet (Monk) on Nov 07, 2016 at 03:14 UTC
A thousand thanx to everyone... I'm not sure what happened, but the reboot fixed it... I am so sorry i didn't "think" of that myself, we all probably know that reboots will fix alot of microsofts bugs... thank you everyone, now i can go on with my project...(thanx Ken) I tried re-inventing the wheel again, but everytime I push it, it still falls flat on it's side...	[reply]
Input problem with Enter key... by ww (Archbishop) on Nov 07, 2016 at 12:18 UTC
Only if you're trying to run this as a one liner, which is contrary to what you said in the OP. If, however, a one liner is at work, MSWin (of any flavor) will hate your quoting. Oversimplifying just a bit, Windows demands double quoting the entire "script" and use of escaping or one of the quote-like (`q/single quoted text/` [no interpolation] or `qq/double quoted text/` [interpolates]) alternatives in the spots where a script would use double-quotes. check Ln42!	[reply] [d/l] [select]