Thanks to those who helped point me in the right direction. I looked at the man page, http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/func/readline.html, and found two forms: readline(*STDIN) and readline<STDIN>; the form which I used (readline STDIN) was not mentioned. The second form uses an inline form or readline, according to the docs; on the Solaris version, it appears to be broken. I switched to readling(*STDIN), and it works as expected. Thanks! <<readline fails on Sun machines?>>
THe following code works on my AIX machines, but not on Solaris machines. All are running Perl 5.005_03. What's the story? Thanks! #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w print "account = " ; $account = readline STDIN ; chomp($account); print "account: $account\n";
