This function worked well for me at work (windows), and at home (linux)
it uses the same format as IO::Prompt (which didnt work on windows last time i checked), but only does one of its features (the -echo option). So If I ever needed I could replace the use statement and still have a working prompt hopefully
use Term::ReadKey;
sub prompt {
my ($prompt, %args) = @_;
local $| = 1;
my $phrase = '';
print $prompt;
ReadMode 'cbreak';
while (1) {
my $c = ReadKey ~0/2-1; #windows workaround http://rt.cpan.org
+/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=27944
if ($c =~ /[\r\n]/) {
print "\n";
last;
}
elsif ($c eq "\b" || ord $c == 127) {
next unless length $phrase;
chop $phrase;
next if !defined $args{-echo};
print map $_ x length $args{-echo}, "\b", " ", "\b";
}
elsif (ord $c) {
$phrase .= $c;
print $args{-echo} if defined $args{-echo};
}
}
ReadMode 'restore';
$phrase;
}
Then to use it:
my $pwd = prompt 'enter password: ', -echo => '*'
print "$pwd\n";
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