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

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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.

In reply to Input problem with Enter key... by Marshall
in thread Input problem with Enter key... by PriNet

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