Reading <STDIN> w/out eching to screen

Question

Reading <STDIN> w/out eching to screen

charlesy (Programmer)

(OP)

14 Jun 00 17:14

I need to read a line of input from <STDIN>
without outputting to screen. ie
like a su command.

MikeLacey (MIS) · Answer 1 · 2000-06-14 20:41:07

try

system('stty -echo');
$response = <STDIN>;
system('stty echo');
print $response;

presuming you're on a unix system....

Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
Cargill's Corporate Web Site

vcherubini (Programmer) · Answer 2 · 2000-07-03 16:45:36

This is an easy problem to fix. Try this, if you are on a Win32 system.

print "enter some information\n";
$info = <STDIN>;
chomp($info);

That should do it. Say you enter "some information" into the program, then the variable $info will have the value "some information" and you can decide what to do with it.

Loon (Programmer) · Answer 3 · 2000-07-04 05:36:49

Vikter,

does that stop the "some information" from being echoed on the command line as you type it though? Which I think was charlsey's aim.

Is there a way of doing this on windows?

Loon

MikeLacey (MIS) · Answer 4 · 2000-07-04 10:47:15

Sorry - I'm a Unix chap myself...

Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
Cargill's Corporate Web Site

Loon (Programmer) · Answer 5 · 2000-07-04 11:05:03

Me too! Shame window doesn't use tty's :-)

Loon

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