Hello, I have an program that needs an userid and password. Then it tests an ftp connection. My question is I got the follow ing code from Mastering Perl5 by Eric Herrmann. What the code is doing is doubling the letters I am entering in the password. Two things can this code be fixed or does someone have an better way of doing it using Win32? The code to get password: 
$console=Win32::Console->new(STD_INPUT_HANDLE);
print<<"eof";
Enter Your novell password
Crtl + U to erase line,
Crtl + H or backspace to delete an character
Carriage return (Enter key) to end entry
eof
GETPASSWORD:
while (($char = ($console->Input())[5]) != $CARRIAGE_RETURN ) {
SWITCH:{
#test for crtl h
if ($char == 8){
print "\b \b";
chop $password;
last SWITCH;
}
# test for crtl u
if ($char == 21){
$currentInputSize = length($password);
print "\b \b" x $currentInputSize;
last SWITCH;
}
#Carriage Return
if ($char == 13){
if (length ($password) == 0){
print "PASSWORD REQUIRED \n";
exit;
}
# stop entry, exit loop
last GETPASSWORD;
}
#Strip out extra stuff
if ($char >= 0x21 && $char <= 0x7E){
#convert number to ASCII int
$password .= chr $char;
print "*";
last SWITCH;
}
# must call Console::Input twice
$char = ($console->Input())[5];
} #end get password

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So if the password is watch it prints out wwaattcchh. Any help would be welcomed. Hal.

In reply to Getting input for an password. by gindelhe

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