in reply to redirecting stdin on windows

What you're asking to do doesn't require Perl at all - the shell can already do it. Create a text file with the username on one line and the password on the next <insert speech about how you shouldn't store passwords in plaintext>. Then, you can simply do myexe.exe < answer.txt where answer.txt is the "answer file" you created.

If you really wanted to get Perl involved for some other reason, you could do this same thing from a call to system.

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Re: Re: redirecting stdin on windows
by arkamedis21 (Acolyte) on Aug 21, 2002 at 13:55 UTC
    I tried doing

    command < input_file

    but it only works if the command asks for one input entry, in windows.
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      Funny, it works for the following (on WinXP):

      script.pl 
      print "username: ";
chomp ($uname = <STDIN>);
print "\npassword: ";
chomp ($password = <STDIN>);
print "\nYou entered username $uname and password $password\n";

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      answer.txt 
      someusername
somepassword

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      And I'm calling it like this: 
      perl script.pl < answer.txt

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      ...which produces this: 
      C:\test\scratch>perl script.pl < answer.txt
username:
password:
You entered username someusername and password somepassword

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      ...which is the expected output.
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