I want to learn how to build line editing ability into a homemade perl script I wrote.
The script takes in keyboard input and formats it, also adding specific lines to the beginning and end. Making input into a blerb in a homemade flat database. Nothing complex just markers fore and aft to make searching work in chunks. A blub ends up like: Keywords: Here will appear the first line of keyboard input 021606_051734 <= formated date appears here Now we see any other lines of input followed by double ampersand. && When the script sees a dot on a line by itself followed by a carriage return it closes and prints the added info and keyboard input to a database. Input is handled with simple <STDIN> type stuff. This is all pretty nifty for homemade stuff, except that the input lines can not be edited as they go in. I mean I can't backup and redo handily like one can in vi or whatever. Its the kind of thing you can see at the command line if you say: cat <enter> somthing Then try to walk back with arrow keys to insert the missing `e'. You can do it with backspace but then you have to erase everything up to the `e'. Using arrow keys you get: cat somthing^[[D^[[D^[[D^[[D So cutting to the chase here, I'd like some basic line editing capability and don't really have a clue as to where to start. I hoped someone here might point me in the direction I need to look. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
