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Ok so i'm trying to use perl to do some scripts, I haven't found a good way to handle user input the $var=<STDIN> works well except for the lack of backspace. I've aslo noticed that if i go in and out of functions STDIN seems to get disconected.

Any suggestions on other way's to handle user input?

ex:

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printf "account name:";
my $name=<STDIN>;
chomp ($name);


<STDIN> is the default way of grabbing user input. if you find that it gets lost in between functions, try to save them into a variable first, then pass that variable to the next function you want to use.

You are better of using a readline library.
It offers a lot more features and the chance you'll miss input is smaller.