in reply to hiding input

as many have told you, you should install and use Term::Readkey, however there is another (dirty) way (at least on unix):
system('stty -echo'); print "insert key:"; $key = <STDIN>; system('stty echo');

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Re: hiding input
by Octavian (Monk) on Nov 17, 2000 at 18:34 UTC
    tried this, and it works great...I am gonna have to use this method. I played around with installing the module on our test box, just to learn a little on how it all works n stuff, but the powers that be wont let me install "extra stuff" on all of our servers. so this is a great alternative...thank you ;)