[wellylug] Getting user input into a Perl program

[Cliff Pratt]

michael at diaspora.gen.nz wrote:
> Cliff Pratt writes:
> 
>>eg, what sort of stuff do I put in the sub 'ask_for_input'? In the case 
>>below, it would presumbly do something like ask "Continue (Y/N)?" and 
>>parse the response and return a true value if it gets a negative 
>>response and would break out of the loop.
> 
> 
>     use IO::Prompt;
>     STUFF: while (1) {
> 	do_stuff();
> 	last STUFF if prompt "Do more stuff [yn]? " -yesno;
> 	do_more_stuff();
>     }
> 
> The IO::Prompt module from Damian Conway et al. is useful in these cases.
>
Thanks Michael. Why the label, though?

Cheers,

Cliff

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