"Bellenger, Bruno (Paris)" wrote:
>
> Bill,
>
> What do you mean there's no need for Enter after ^Z ?
>
> Really appears that as far as we are reading <STDIN>
> line by line, it will just keep waiting for the next character
> to be entered until a carriage return/line feed is input.
> (as long as the default separator is left unchanged)
>
> Only then will it return the chars input, as a single whole
> line into the $line variable. And only then will the loop
> be given to check if that variable is or not defined.
>
> As far as remember, that's the default behavior on all
> Windows/Dos systems, isn't it ?
I'm getting all mixed up trying 3 diff shells. Yes, you should type
enter before the ^Z. You can type ^Z^Z and it will work, but you get
an extra space printed out. So I would recommend always typing enter
before the ^Z - regardless of shell.
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