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12-04-2001

emcb

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getting input from perl

Hi,

i have just tried something in perl

#!/path/to/perl
print "login: ";
$login = <STDIN>;

print "\npassword: ";
$password = <STDIN>;

print "Username=$login\n";
print "Password=$password\n";

And it doesnt work, anyone know how i can get more than one line?

Cheers,

Elfyn

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12-05-2001

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Why do you need to get more than one line?

$login = <STDIN>;
$password = <STDIN>;

should each read one line from the keyboard. Is that what you are tying to do?

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12-06-2001

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Thats What I Need!

I need to get to lines of input username/password and then run them against a login program.

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