Monks, I'm writing an app which uses a simple menu interface, and I'd like to be able to test it quickly by running it with a text file as imput, thus:


$ ./myprogram.pl <inputfile.txt

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where inputfile is simply a text file containing the menu options I want the program to run

inputfile.txt: 


1
4
5
y
n
filename.in
y
5
8
etc..

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This is fine until the program gets to a bit of user input that needs to be entered using a Term::Readline object. The Term::Readline object does not read the commands from the file, so I have to start typing in the terminal. Does anyone know how to fix this, so I can run inputfile.txt to test the whole program?

Any ideas appreciated.

Thanks, M

In reply to Term::Readline won't accept redirected input by Anonymous Monk

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