What am I doing wrong? Here are 3 attempts at trying to use getchar. It seems I am 
following the Usage, but I guess not. 


$ perl -e 'use POSIX;$ab="10";$pab=POSIX::getchar($ab);print $ab,"\n",$pab;'
Usage: POSIX::getchar() at -e line 1


$ perl -e 'use POSIX;$ab="10";$pab=POSIX::getchar(STDIN);print $ab,"\n",$pab;'
Usage: POSIX::getchar() at -e line 1

== I entered the "abc" in this example ===
$ perl -e 'use POSIX;$ab="10";$pab=POSIX::getchar(<STDIN>);print $ab,"\n",$pab;
'
abc
Usage: POSIX::getchar() at -e line 1

Thanks,
John


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