I'm making a Dungeons & Dragons die-rolling program in which the user is asked for input over and over until Ctrl-C. The source code is here: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Input the dice and modifier you want to roll like this: 2d9+100
+. To quit, press Ctrl-C.\n";
while (1) {
    my $dice = <>;
    my @arr = split (/d/, $dice);
    my @arr2 = split (/\+/, $arr[1]);
    for my $i (1 .. $arr[0]){
        print ((int(rand($arr2[0] - 1)) + 1 + $arr2[1]), "\n");}}

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I want to add input history to this program; that is, when a user presses the up-arrow, the program provides the last input, just like in interactive ksh/csh/bash. How would I go about this? $thanks++, zsl

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