I've racked my brain for an answer to this one. Probably real simple..... I'd like to run a process reatedly until entering a character on the keyboard (other than ^C). When the character is entered the process would complete some final tasks and exit the program.
do { # a process $Keyboard_Input = (check_for_input); } until ($Keyboard_Input); # some final tasks I've tried to use the standard input file <STDIN> without success. I've tried $Keyboard_Input = <STDIN>; which just halts the script until the Enter key is pressed. $Keyboard_Input = eof (STDIN); which halts until the Enter key is pressed and then returns a null character thereafter $Keyboard_Input = tell (STDIN); which returns a '0' character even if the Enter key is pressed, OK, so what am I missing here? Do I need to use something other than the Standard Input File structure? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>