Hi,

I am a perl novice, and am embarking on creating a perl script for work. The following test loop does not break when I input nothing and then press 'return', it just keeps looping. Something wrong? I can't see an issue: 

print "Hello How are you?\n";
print "Please enter your reply here: ";
$count=0;
while (defined(chomp(@input[$count]=<STDIN>)))    {
    print "\nYour entry was \"@input[$count]\"";
    $count++;
}

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Any help greatly appreciated!

Npatel

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