I'm working on a fairly lengthy ( for a newbie like me) program that has two modes.
The user can type "mine blah" and my program will find all "blah" or he/she can type
"mine !" to enter interactive mode. The problem is that when I get to this snippet:
sub getinteractivesearch
{
#print "We're interactive!\n\n";
opendir(logdirectory, '.') or die "Can't open directory.";
print "Enter string to search for: ";
$searchstring = <>;
chomp $searchstring;
print $searchstring;
&searchfiles;
}
My program dies with this:
Enter string to search for: Can't open !: No such file or directory at
C:\PERLPR~1/mine.bat line 46.
So basically it looks like it's skipping the part where is asks for the search string.
I have had this problem before, and I have never been able to figure it out. Is
there some way to flush the <>? Or what? I'm totally in the dark here. Maybe I'm
looking in a completely wrong direction. Can someone be my guide? If you need more
code I'd be happy to provide it. My problem might not even exist in this snippet.
-Dave
