My query has to do with how one would stop perl from accepting 3 carraige returns when one enters Ctrl-C and decides to resume the programme..

# ./prompt2
Testing One Two Three
^CPress -=ENTER=- to Resume or 'q' to quit
<ENTER * 3 times>
Got to the end of the programme

Here is the code
#!/usr/bin/perl
$SIG{'INT'} = sub {
print "Press -=ENTER=- to Resume or 'q' to quit\n";
chomp (my $quit=<STDIN>);
die "\nTerminating at users request \n" if $quit =~ /^q$/i;
};
print "Testing One Two Three\n";
chomp (my $continue=<STDIN>);
print "Got to the end of the programme \n";

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janitored by ybiC: Balanced <code> tags around codeblock, other minor format tweaks for legibility

In reply to Resuming from a SIG{INT} by jmccaf01

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