Re: how do I make a input from STDIN to be silent??

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:15:17 +1100, Ivan Teliatnikov
<ivan@es.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> I want to read a passwd string from the terminal but without
> displaying it back to the screen.

 perldoc -q password

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Term::ReadKey;

print "Password: ";

ReadMode('noecho');
chomp( my $password = ReadLine(0) );
ReadMode('normal');

print "\nYou entered '$password'\n";

__END__
									   

 
> Thank you.
> 


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