but I can't seem to figure out how to reopen STDIN to the keyboard device. Any hints?
You could use:
open STDIN, '/dev/tty' or die "open: /dev/tty: $!";
Or you could just open another filehandle (e.g. TTY) and read the user input from that, rather than from STDIN.
There's also the family of Term::Readline modules on CPAN.
-- Steve
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