my $maskPrompt = "\r" . ' ' x  (length($prompt) + 2) . "\r";

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Why do you create this variable if you never use it? 

my (@input) = ();
print $prompt;

chomp @input;

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Why do you assign nothing to an already empty variable?    And why then do you chomp an empty variable? 

foreach $times(1 .. $times) { 
    $ascii .= chr (<STDIN>);
}

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Why are you using the same variable name for the loop creation and for the local variable?    I have been using Perl for many many years and I have never seen anyone do this before and it is very confusing.    It only works because the value stored in $times is local to the loop body but it is not something that you should do because it is very confusing.

In reply to Re^2: Problem with reading multi-line by jwkrahn
in thread Problem with reading multi-line by sarshads

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