5.4. User Input

Example 5-3. examples/scalars/read_from_stdin.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

print "Enter your name, please: ";
my $name = <STDIN>;
print "Hello $name, how are you ?\n";

$ perl examples/read_from_stdin.pl 
Enter your name, please: Foo 
Hello Foo 
, how are you ?

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