Hi all, I am new to Perl. I searched around for a fix to my issue but could not find it. I am using the win32.pm in order to read single keystroke input to move a cursor around a console screen and it works great. However, I also need to read a line of input for the player name. STDIN seems to hang when I use the Win32.pm though it does not error nor does it respond any longer once I try to use it and I have to break out of the program. Here is my code. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

require Term::Screen::Win32;
#This pm is used for single key input, specific screen location
# and other screen manipulations (clrscr() clears screen)

$scr = new Term::Screen::Win32; #This sets up $scr with the screen acc
+ess commands using Win32.pm
   unless ($scr) { die " Something's wrong \n"; }

$scr->clrscr();
while (length($ans)<9) {
    $scr->at(0,0); print "Type something here: \n";
    $ans = $scr->getch();

    if ($ans =~ "\r") {print"True";}

    $newval .= $ans;
    $scr->at(1, 0); print $newval;

}#end while
$scr->at(2,0);
print "Enter something: ";
$response = <stdin>;
print $response,"\n";

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What I want, is to be able to read a single keypress to move the cursor around the screen and also be able to input a name/word. I have also tried saving the continuous key input but checking for \r doesn't seem to work unless the Win32.pm echo() is used. So with echo(), there may be a way to get a full line of text rather than just a single character. I am still tinkering. Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated.

In reply to win32.pm disabling stdin? by LostUser

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