My working perl code on my old Windows7 laptop no longer works on my new laptop running Windows10

Old laptop is running Strawberry Perl v5.26.1, and I run the scripts in Git Bash. I'm switching over to my new laptop running Windows10, using Strawberry Perl v25.6.2 in Git Bash. On the new laptop, the codes' first user interaction *should* ask for, and process, a number from the user but it appears to pause. IF I hit Enter if proceeds in the code without processing the user's input

use strict ;
use warnings ;
use diagnostics ;
my $index ;
my $Instance ;
my $numClients ;
my @ClientList ;
use Scalar::Util qw(looks_like_number) ;

print "How many Clients are you entering? \n" ;         # 5
$numClients = <STDIN> ;
chomp($numClients) ;
if ( !looks_like_number($numClients) ) {
   print "   Your input is NOT a numeric\n" ;
   exit(1) ;
}

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any help is appreciated, thanks O Wise Ones

In reply to not working in Win10 by Boschman

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