Monks, I'm trying to write a snippet of code that gets the user to enter a filename until they enter one that's present. Here's the code: 
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use Term::ReadLine;
my $term = new Term::ReadLine 'test';
while ($filename = $term->readline('>')) {
        print "checking for $filename...\n";
        last if (-e $filename);
        print "file not found, try again\n";
}
print "filename is ~~$filename~~";

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This works fine except when I just press enter at the '>' prompt; at which point the program exits, without even getting to "checking for...". The same thing happens in the middle of my program. Obviously, I don't want this, as I then end up trying to open a file that isn't there. Is this behaviour intentional? Any ideas appreciated.

In reply to Term::ReadLine behaviour on a blank line by Anonymous Monk

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