Re: [MacPerl] passive input request

[Derrik Walker II <firebug@apk.net>]

On 17 Sep 1999, Nicholas G. Thornton wrote:

> I'm working on a program that I'd like to have command line interface. Ideally
> it's just sit there with a prompt (ala dos...) untill you type something. I was
> wondering how I'd go about implimenting this rather than MacPerl::Ask() to
> recive input.
> 

I do this kind of thing a lot under UNIX...

while(1)
{
	$input = <STDIN>;
	if( $input eq "quit" ) { exit 0; }
	else{ &DoSomethingWith( $input ); }
}


-Derrik


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