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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 22:36:24 -0600 (MDT)
From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Wouter van Rooij <aentgood@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: perl <stdin>
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On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Wouter van Rooij wrote:

> At the first place, sorry for my bad English.
> My question is:
> How can you, when you're writing a perl program, make a input
> (<stdin>) hidden, so that when someone is typing an input in the
> following program is hidden:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> print "Your name:";
> $name = <STDIN>
> I would like to get the input like this: ********

man -P 'less +/password' perlfaq8

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA