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Old 02-15-2009
Taking user response in perl

I was wondering if it was possible to take in a user's response in a perl program.

For example.

Ask user a yes or no question, and then depending on the response, print out a corresponding answer?


Thanks!
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Old 02-15-2009
Try this

Code:
#! /usr/bin/perl

print "Enter you name\n";
chomp ($name = <STDIN>);
print "Hii $name\n";


See the result

Code:
[ahamed@localhost general]$ ./datainput.pl 
Enter you name
Ahamed
Hii Ahamed
[ahamed@localhost general]$

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Old 02-15-2009
Thanks!
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