is there an 'on key' command in perl?

[firehand]

I'm writing a program that takes many <stdin> after each other. All
the inputs are only one charters long (some are two but i can change
them if i habe to). That's why it would make my program work much
faster, if i didn't have to push 'enter' after every input and perl
would just do the next action after i pressed the letter or number. Is
this possible? I know it works in q-basic with a command called 'on
key' so I guess that's what I'm looking for for perl now.

please help me, thanks a lot,

firehand

 

[Anno Siegel]

I'm writing a program that takes many <stdin> after each other. All
the inputs are only one charters long (some are two but i can change
them if i habe to). That's why it would make my program work much
faster, if i didn't have to push 'enter' after every input and perl
would just do the next action after i pressed the letter or number. Is
this possible? I know it works in q-basic with a command called 'on
key' so I guess that's what I'm looking for for perl now.

Check out the module Term::ReadKey.

Anno

 

[Jürgen Exner]

I'm writing a program that takes many <stdin> after each other. All
the inputs are only one charters long (some are two but i can change
them if i habe to).

Please see 'perldoc -q character':
"How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?"

jue