readline

[Bob Mangold]

I'm having trouble reading STDIN.

This works:

$a = readline STDIN;
print $a; # prints out whatever was inputed

But the does not work:

use strict;
$a = readline <STDIN>; # forced to use <STDIN>
print $a; # prints nothing

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