Re: Getting Multiple inputs

Just have them enter the words all on one line using the delimiter of your choice - say a space - and then split the line into it's component words. Like so:

print "Enter some words (separated by spaces): >> ";
chomp(my $line = <STDIN>);

my @words = split /\s+/, $line;
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Note that the "\s+" will split on one or more whitespace characters, so it will still work if they accidentally type two spaces between some words.

Cheers,
Darren :)

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Re^2: Getting Multiple inputs by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 05, 2006 at 18:52 UTC
`split /\s+/` would probably be even better as `split ' '` `>perl -e "@f = split(' ', ' a b c '); print scalar @f 3 >perl -e "@f = split(/\s+/, ' a b c '); print scalar @f 4` [download] `' '` does the same thing as /\s+/, but it ignores leading spaces. `split`'s documentation	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Getting Multiple inputs by sweetblood (Prior) on Apr 05, 2006 at 18:43 UTC
And without the temp variable `chomp(my @words = (split /\s+/,(<STDIN>)));` [download] Cheers Yeah, I know I'm paren happy Sweetblood	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Getting Multiple inputs by gzayzay (Sexton) on Apr 05, 2006 at 17:21 UTC
Thanks for the tip.	[reply]