Dave,
Are you running this as a batch file, or as a PERL file?
--Bill
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From: "SAWMaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 12:48 PM
Subject: Mysterys of the Unknown STDIN
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
