Further to Corion's advice, I have used this code structure in the past when prompting for user input that is terminated by CTRL+D (or CTRL+Z and ENTER). It clears away your last prompt before returning to the shell to make things look a bit tidier.

use strict;
use warnings;

my $prompt     = q{Please enter your response (CTRL+D to exit): };
my $dePrompt   = qq{\r} . q{ } x ( length( $prompt ) + 2 ) . qq{\r};
my $responseCt = 0;

while( 1 )
{
    print $prompt;
    last if eof STDIN;
    $_ = <STDIN>;
    chomp;
    $responseCt ++;
    print qq{Response $responseCt, "$_"\n};
}

print $dePrompt;

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I hope this is of use.

Cheers,

JohnGG

In reply to Re: While(defined(STDIN)) does not break by johngg
in thread While(defined(STDIN)) does not break by npatel

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