Re: Pasting text when capturing user input only prints one character if system call is made in the loop


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Re: Pasting text when capturing user input only prints one character if system call is made in the loop

by roboticus (Chancellor)

on May 02, 2019 at 04:12 UTC ( [id://1233260]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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in reply to Pasting text when capturing user input only prints one character if system call is made in the loop

Allasso:

I expect you'll have a lot of trouble with trying to handle user input that way. When you call system, it forks off a new process which will inherit the standard input and output streams. I'd expect plenty of trouble with the other process possibly consuming/resetting the streams.

Based on your post, I'd suggest you instead use Term::ReadKey to get the ability to act on individual keypresses.

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