UPDATE: Never mind. I figured it out. It was doing exactly what it was support to do.

The real problem was my code in the previous section.

In my application, I ask for the user's input, but if the user presses a "Ctrl-H", I want to display a help screen, and if the user presses a "Ctrl-P", I want to go back to the previous question.

I've found the "Term::ReadKey" module and did a small little test:

#! /usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Term::ReadKey;

ReadMode "raw";
my $key = ReadKey(0);
ReadMode "restore";
print "Backspace detected!\n" if ($key eq "^H");

my $foo = <STDIN>;
print "ASCII Code Value = " . ord($key) . "\n";
print "Complete Answer = " . $key . $foo . "\n";
print "You typed a \"$key\"\n";

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Works like a charm! Now, I apply this same technique to my program: 
   print "\n\nANSWER";
   if (defined($default)) {
       print " [Default = $default]";
   }
   print ": ";
   ReadMode "raw";
   my $key = ReadKey(0);
   ReadMode "restore";
   if ($key eq "^H") { #Help Mode!
       $showHelpFlag = 1;
       redo;
   }
   chomp($answer = $key . <STDIN>);

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No good! When I print the value of "$key", it shows the correct ASCII value, but it doesn't seem to read control characters, so it simply ignores "Ctrl-H" presses.

So, why does the test program work, but the same code in my more complex program doesn't? BTW, the code is in a part where I redefined the package name. I'm making a feeble attempting to do object oriented programming. Would this do anything?

In reply to Reading Single Character Input with Term::ReadKey by qazwart

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