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Rob Lester

2004-05-22, 11:31 am

I'm stumped on where to look but there must be a module to handle
interactive programming. What I mean is printing out a list of things,
the user selects what he wants, hits enter and the program continues. I
presume the module would enable going back to change things and handle
multipage input.

Have I missed something basic to perl programming? I've perused the
camel books but I tend to learn by doing and at this stage may have
skimmed over it

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Wiggins D'Anconia

2004-05-22, 11:31 am

rob lester wrote:
> I'm stumped on where to look but there must be a module to handle
> interactive programming. What I mean is printing out a list of things,
> the user selects what he wants, hits enter and the program continues. I
> presume the module would enable going back to change things and handle
> multipage input.
>
> Have I missed something basic to perl programming? I've perused the
> camel books but I tend to learn by doing and at this stage may have
> skimmed over it
>


You are asking this question on a CGI list, do you mean interactive at a
shell or over the web?

To remain on topic, I will assume the latter, in general Perl is used in
a CGI context which usually means that there is a stateless session such
that an "interactive" (or continually running process across multiple
HTTP pages) doesn't really exist. There are a number of ways around
this hinderance, but none of which truly provide a stateful, interactive
feel.

So what do you really mean?

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2004-05-22, 11:31 am

Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:
> rob lester wrote:
>
....

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> To remain on topic, I will assume the latter, in general Perl is used in
> a CGI context which usually means that there is a stateless session such
> that an "interactive" (or continually running process across multiple
> HTTP pages) doesn't really exist. There are a number of ways around
> this hinderance, but none of which truly provide a stateful, interactive
> feel.
>
> So what do you really mean?


Hopefully CGI - see
http://modperl.com:9000/hangman.html
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