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I think OP needs to clarify whether he wants to prompt for input e.g prompt function or take arguments from the command line e.g. @ARGV or getopt::long...

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Re^2: detect input available from command line
by mifflin (Curate) on Mar 11, 2011 at 16:49 UTC
    I want to know when 
    while (<>) {
}

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    has something available to read. I'd like to not execute this code when there isn't something available because it will block.

    This idiom will read when @ARGV is populated or when there is some data available to read on STDIN.

    I can handle detecting whether @ARGV has data. What I'm not sure on is how to detect whether STDIN has something available to read. Still testing but I'm not convinced, yet, that -t, as suggested by others, will work here.

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      One thing you can do is start a second thread. Let that thread do the blocking read, and pass results to the main thread as they become available.

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