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Re: How do I make password prompts not echo back the user?

by strredwolf (Chaplain)
on Sep 20, 2000 at 22:52 UTC ( [id://33374]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How do I make password prompts not echo back the user?

In addition to Term::Readkey, you may want to write up your own linegetter with getc(STDIN). That way, you'll be able to trap all of the deletes/backspaces w/o having any problems.

Isn't there a Readline module?

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