Austad, Jay wrote: > So in perl, how do I read user entered input in character by character and > have it do something when a particular key is pressed. Say I want the > program to print "You pressed 5!" when I press the number 5. So I type: > 12345 > > When the first numbers are entered, nothing happens, but as soon as I press > 5, the program prints it's output and dies. When I tried using a while > (<STDIN>) loop, it didn't seem to read character by character but rather > only evaluated all of them after I pressed enter. I haven't used this personally, but I bet that Term::Readkey might help you out a bit... http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Term/TermReadKey-2.21.readme -Erik _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list