Though he's probably not allowed to use CPAN in his course work, it's too bad. Because if he could, he would be able to use IO::Prompt::Tiny or IO::Prompt::Hooked to simplify the prompting for input. In fact, though it's like calling in the artillery when a fly swatter is needed, ExtUtils::MakeMaker is a core module, and comes with the prompt function.

use ExtUtils::MakeMaker 'prompt';

my $value = prompt "Please enter something.", "asdf";
print "$value\n";

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The first argument is what to say to the user. The second argument is what default to assume if the user just hits enter (or if there's no terminal).


Dave

In reply to Re^2: Set operations by davido
in thread Set operations by Panfi96

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