in reply to program hangs on user input

Works fine for me.  Maybe you've accidentally changed the input record sepaprator $/ ?

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Re^2: program hangs on user input
by equick (Acolyte) on Jan 28, 2011 at 10:29 UTC
    Thanks! That's exactly what I did.
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