Fellow monks, I know you are all rolling your eyes and going for the -- button. But hold on. I know this is Chapter 1 stuff in any Perl book, and I should have figured this out years ago. But for some reason I have never been able to make it work. Am I'm tired of writing an HTML form every time I need some simple input.

I tried examples from Learning Perl and Programming Perl (The Cookbook uses Term::Readkey for all its examples), those found from Google searches and PM's very own Super Search--and there are hundreds of them.

When I save this insanely simple script to my server and access it from a browser, it prints the prompt and then nothing. I thought I'd have a cursor, I would type something, see what I was typing, and then hit RETURN and the results would be printed to screen.

What am I not getting? 
#!/usr/bin/perl 

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;
use warnings;

# $| = 1;
print "What is your name? ";
my $name= <STDIN>;
chomp $name;
print $name,"\n";

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TIA!

—Brad
"A little yeast leavens the whole dough."

In reply to Really, how do I get input from the keyboard. by bradcathey

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