Hi all, probably a dumb question, but I am using <STDIN> to collect user information on a Perl script on Mac OSX. For some reason pressing Enter moves the cursor to the next line, and only by pressing control-D can I get it to continue. And control-D by itself doesn't do it either. Naturally I'd like the Enter key to be the only thing needed. Am I doing something wrong?
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "How many cookies do you want? Enter number: ";
my($cookies) = <STDIN>;
chomp($cookies);
print "You wanted only $cookies?\n";
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