Yes, and in fact it uses IO::Select internally.

You could consider it a wrapper around IO::Select that lets you use the fairly comfortable perl idiom: 

# open up a process that spits out prompts and occasionally
# suddenly spews screenfuls of data
while (<PROCESSOUTPUT>)
{
  chomp;
  if (/some prompt:/) {
    # kicked out because of the timeout
    # respond as appropriate
    ...
  }
  elsif (/first type of data/) {
    # kicked out because a newline was sent.
    ...
  }
  elsif (/second type of data/) {
    ...
  }
  ...
}

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It's all about making the rest of your code more readable/useful. The thing is, you'd really like to read most of the program's output with <>, but you never know when the program will stop spewing data and suddenly hand you a prompt without a trailing newline. (such as Solaris's tar prompting you to change tapes) You'd rather not clutter up your main code with distinguishing between whether you got a newline or not.

In reply to Re: Re: Read a line with <> before \n by fizbin
in thread Read a line with <> before \n by fizbin

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