[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I wish to read input from a user that has multiple lines with carriage
> returns from <stdin> but not actually stop reading until a single #
> on a line by itself.
You can use perl's $/ variable to define an record separator. The default is
"\n", but you can change it.
Try this:
$/ = "\n#\n";
while (<STDIN>) {
chomp;
print "You entered: $_\n";
}
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