On Apr 9, Michael Gargiullo said: >While asking a few questions to run a script. How can I give a default >answer? > >print "File to use:"; >chomp(my $question = <STDIN>);
Most programs do it like so: my $default = "/foo/bar/blat"; print "File to use? [$default] "; chomp(my $question = <STDIN>); $question = $default if $question eq ''; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
