From: "TapasranjanMohapatra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> All,
> Can somebody let me know what is the Perl equivalent of scanf in C. Is
> it String::Scanf or there are some other options by which we can take
> key board input. Thank You. Tapas

We usualy read a line of input by
        $line = <STDIN>;

remove the newline with
        chomp($line)

and parse it using regexps:
        my ($id, $name) = ($line =~ /ID: (\d+), Name: ([^,]+)/);

The chomp() step is often not necessary.

Jenda
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