I guess you're still trying to reinvent the Term::ReadLine wheel? ;-) In your previous thread you said "I am hopping around to different machines frequently ... especially say, a Mac that doesn't have dev tools installed, etc.". system calls to local tools isn't what I would call portable. I would recommend, like others have, using a module for this purpose. I might suggest that you could instead look at how to package modules with your scripts so that you don't need to install them everywhere - e.g. App::FatPacker or PAR-Packer.

In reply to Re: Pasting text when capturing user input only prints one character if system call is made in the loop by haukex
in thread Pasting text when capturing user input only prints one character if system call is made in the loop by Allasso

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