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odie has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am using a bidirectional pipe to another process. Readline will block the program until a line is recieved. How do I read in a non blocking way?
Is there perhaps a smart (and nifty. must be nifty.) way to check if there is data waiting?


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