Input problem with Enter key...

[PriNet]

i don't imagine it has anything to do with the fact i'm using strawberry on xp?

[Marshall]

I sincerely doubt that XP or Strawberry has anything to do with this! This very simple program should work on any version of Perl and on any platform!

use warnings;
use strict;

print "type something: ";
my $input = <STDIN>;
print "you typed", $input;

# of course: 
# print "you typed $input";
# would be the same

I don't know if you are using some kind of development environment to run the code or not? Save this .pl file verbatim and run it from the Windows XP command line - not from within any development environment.

Before posting, I tested this on Win XP to avoid a typo problem. I am using an Active State build, but that shouldn't matter in the slightest.

[PriNet]

i'm going to try the suggested reboot... I hadn't tried that yet because i was watching this post, but i have a way around that here...

[PriNet]

A thousand thanx to everyone... I'm not sure what happened, but the reboot fixed it... I am so sorry i didn't "think" of that myself, we all probably know that reboots will fix alot of microsofts bugs... thank you everyone, now i can go on with my project...(thanx Ken)

[ww]

Only if you're trying to run this as a one liner, which is contrary to what you said in the OP.

If, however, a one liner is at work, MSWin (of any flavor) will hate your quoting. Oversimplifying just a bit, Windows demands double quoting the entire "script" and use of escaping or one of the quote-like (q/single quoted text/ [no interpolation] or qq/double quoted text/ [interpolates]) alternatives in the spots where a script would use double-quotes.