Re: Getting user input from STDIN

[alexm]

crypt has an example which uses stty command:

$pwd = (getpwuid($<))[1];

system "stty -echo";
print "Password: ";
chomp($word = <STDIN>);
print "\n";
system "stty echo";

if (crypt($word, $pwd) ne $pwd) {
    die "Sorry...\n";
} else {
    print "ok\n";
}

However, this trick will only work on Unix-like systems.