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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> perl5-porters
perl5-porters
Re: [ID 20010131.067] dos CNTL D problem
by Ronald J Kimball other posts by this author
Feb 1 2001 2:46AM messages near this date
[ID 20010131.067] dos CNTL D problem | [ID 20010131.036] OK: perl v5.6.1 +v5.6.1-TRIAL2 on armv4l-linux 2.4.0-rmk3 (UNINSTALLED)
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:07:49PM -0500, canadiangerry@[...].com wrote:
>  I'm learning Perl as a first language, so please bare with me.
>  I have a problem when executing in DOS.  I want to create an array with it's 
>  elements coming from @array=<STDIN>.  When I run the script in DOS and I 
>  want to end the input by pressing CNTL D, nothing happens.  The only way I 
>  can end the script is by pressing CNTL C, and of course that just quits it 
>  without finishing.  Any ideas?  Any help would be much appreciated.

The end of input character in DOS is control-Z rather than control-D.
You'll probably need to follow it by pressing return.

Please be aware that perlbug is intended for reporting bugs in Perl.  I
recommend the newsgroups or www.perlmonks.org for help with using Perl.

Ronald
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Ronald J Kimball

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