On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Chap Harrison <c...@pobox.com> wrote: > This may be beyond the beginner level.... I don't know. > > I'd like to prompt the user to type in a City, State, and Zip in one line. > It's free-form, in that it's just for display, but I can make a pretty > decent "suggestion" based upon data I've previously gathered. > > If I've gathered "IN-NewDurhamTwpMetro66765", I can convert it to "New > Durham Twp Metro, IN 66765", which I"d like to pre-load the input area with > when I prompt for City, State, and Zip. I'd like the user to have full > readline capability, so he can forward-cursor up to Twp, and change it to > Township (for example). >
Sounds like something as basic as print "Question to ask: "; $value=<INPUT>; is what your looking for? > I looked at Term::Readline::Gnu in CPAN and it's wa-a-ay over my head. Is > there a simpler way, perhaps built into Perl, to prompt for terminal input > and provide a preloaded string that can be edited? > > Thanks, > Chap > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- [ Rodrick R. Brown ] http://www.rodrickbrown.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/rodrickbrown -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
