I'm not sure how to describe my problem so apologies in advance.
I have some software that generates notifications. I want to write a script to take the info (text) generated and 'do' something with it.
I don't know how to 'pull in' the info. I posted to the software list and I've copied an excerpt from the only reply...
"the script just reads from STDIN with a 
while (<>) {
}

[download]
loop, processing line by line.
This is under Solaris but it should work under Windows as well."
Well I don't think it is the same under Windows as this isn't working for me (but I could be being stupid). I've tried variations on this while (<STDIN>){}, @array = <> and @array = <STDIN> (I realise some of these might not be valid syntax) but no joy.
Any pointers appreciated.

Sorry too about the strange formatting

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