in reply to program hangs on user input

This code might not do what you expect if there is something in @ARGV. The diamond operator <> will try to read files specified in @ARGV (command-line arguments) before reading STDIN if none are present. So it is safer to:
$resp = <STDIN>;

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Re^2: program hangs on user input
by equick (Acolyte) on Jan 28, 2011 at 12:13 UTC
    Thanks, that's a good tip.
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