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Update: Oh! In general it is not a good idea to mix select with buffered operations like <STDIN>. See the warning in the end of select function documentation. The problem is that the last line has been read already and placed into the buffer when you're calling select, and select doesn't know about buffer, it checks only file descriptor.

In reply to Re: Select not recognizing input from STDIN by zwon
in thread Select not recognizing input from STDIN by hema99

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