I suppose you could have an input loop that would be checking to see if you've typed a '\t', which would then iterate through your opendir list with a little regex for filtering what you've already got... Probably use Term::ReadKey. 
#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use Term::ReadKey;

# make STDOUT hot
$| = 1;
$string = '';
$done = 0;
# get your dir listing
opendir($dh, '.');
@dir = sort readdir($dh);
closedir $dh;

# input loop
while (!$done) {
    # read a key
    while (defined ($key = ReadKey(-1))) {
        # if it's a tab, get the next thing in the directory
        if ($key =~ /\t/) {
            # treat dir as circular list
            $cur = shift(@dir);
            # 'clear' the input
            print "\b" x (length($string));
            print " " x (length($string));
            print "\b" x (length($string));
            $string = $cur;
            push(@dir, $cur);
        }
        # return means we're done
        elsif ($key =~ /\r/) {
            $done = 1;
            last;
        }
        # otherwise add to input string
        else {
            $string .= $key;
            # don't forget to clear to keep things looking normal
            print "\b" x (length($string) - 1);
        }
        print $string;
    }
}

print "\nyou have selected: $string\n";

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Yeah, it's a little funky. But I'm pretty sure it meets your requirements =D

In reply to Re: Active STDIN for user typed filepath by temporal
in thread Active STDIN for user typed filepath by Mery84

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