Are you running any other programs from your script, using system, for example? It could be that a child process is using stdin, rather than your perl.
Another weird affect might be had with opening a file whose filename contains '|'.

Furthermore, this happens intermittently, and it can happen anywhere in the program.
If that is true, then is something else using the console window? How was the perl program launched? In Windows, by default, a child process uses the parent's console. Maybe the parent is getting in the way. Another possibility is that stdout is screwed-up with an output buffer getting full and blocking, I have seen some weird effects from "|more" on Windows.

In reply to Re: Perl suddenly pauses for key input by cdarke
in thread Perl suddenly pauses for key input by KHLeow

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