Re: (OT-perl) read from stdin without echoing (fwd)

[Burkhard Ritter <burkhard@sportident.de>]

once Raffaele Sandrini <maturarbeit@gmx.ch> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Wich commands do i have to use to read from the console (STDIN) witchout the
> chars getting writed to the console like in a password entry?
>
> cheers,
> Raffaele
>
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from the cookbook:
use Term:ReadKey;

ReadMode('noecho');
$passwd=ReadLine(0);