Re: printing deletable text to stdout

I've used Term::Clui several times and it makes adding an interactive prompt to your script a trivial matter (ask takes two arguements, the first being the question and the second being the default, which is editable by the user):

use Term::Clui;
my $filename = ask("Please enter a filename:","C:\test.txt");
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It also provides several other functions like confirm which automatically interprets a y/n response for you as well as a choose($question,@list) chooser.

I'm pretty sure it works on W32 but haven't used it there recently enough to know for sure.

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Re^2: printing deletable text to stdout by richz (Beadle) on Oct 06, 2004 at 21:03 UTC
None of the solutions above that worked were really what I wanted. The problem with putting in those backsapce escape sequences is if the filename is long and scrolls down to the next line it is a pain. Also it doesn't allow me to modify the default. I am looking for something exactly like Term::Clui but that works on Win32...it didnt' seem to work for me on win32.	[reply]
Re^3: printing deletable text to stdout by bpphillips (Friar) on Oct 07, 2004 at 12:36 UTC
What problems were you having with it? Could you not get it to even install or was it a problem using the package?	[reply]