Hi,

So I found out that Win32::Ole and threads don't go well together, and Alarms are difficult to get working on Win32.

I need to time user's input and feed the next instructions with some default values when no input is received in STDIN within a given period. If I call read_excel directly, it will work just fine. If i will call it within a thread, then I will still have to press enter before the script can continue executing. But I need to do it this way, otherwise I'll have another problem with Win32::OLE and threads being not compatible (i.e., the program crashes).

I swear I made this work before but when it was time to clean up my code and re-arrange everything, it stopped working. And I couldn't CTRL+Z anymore in Padre because I already closed the file.

I'm on Windows 7, perl 5.14.2 if that helps.

use 5.014;
use threads;
use threads::shared; 

my $input : shared; 
my $inthread = threads->new (sub {
   $SIG{KILL} = sub { threads->exit(); };
   print "Enter something: ";
   chomp ($input = <STDIN>);
});
sleep 5;
if (not defined $input) {
 
   $inthread->kill('KILL')->detach;
}
else {
   print "we got $input!";
}


my $message = 'HELLO FROM SUB!!!\n';
my ($excelthread) = threads->create('read_excel', $message);
#read_excel($message);

say "\nNEW THREAD SUCCESSFULLY CREATED";


sub read_excel{
   say shift;
}

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In reply to Timed STDIN input via threads on Win32 by markperlb0y

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