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> Why would this program then NOT wait for any further input via STDIN ?

Perl can't read your mind, if you want to read from STDIN, explicitly use STDIN instead of stretching DWIM magic behavior till it breaks.

UPDATE:

actually your example is reading from STDIN, but maybe you should stop the redirecting from file to STDIN if you wanna read from interactive input (keyboard).

see select

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

In reply to Re^3: <> oddity ? by LanX
in thread <> oddity ? by Krambambuli

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