IO::Prompt::Tiny(3pm) User Contributed Perl DocumentationIO::Prompt::Tiny(3pm)
NAME
IO::Prompt::Tiny - Prompt for user input with a default option
VERSION
version 0.003
SYNOPSIS
use IO::Prompt::Tiny qw/prompt/;
my $answer = prompt("Yes or no? (y/n)", "n");
DESCRIPTION
This is an extremely simple prompting module, based on the extremely
simple prompt offered by ExtUtils::MakeMaker.In many cases, that's all
you need and this module gives it to you without all the overhead of
ExtUtils::MakeMaker just to prompt for input.
It doesn't do any validation, coloring, menus, timeouts, or any of the
wild, crazy, cool stuff that other prompting modules do. It just
prompts with a default. That's it!
USAGE
The following function may be explicitly imported. No functions are
imported by default.
prompt
my $value = prompt($message);
my $value = prompt($message, $default);
The prompt() function displays the message as a prompt for input and
returns the (chomped) response from the user, or the default if the
response was empty.
If the program is not running interactively or if the
PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT environment variable is set to true, the default
will be used without prompting.
If no default is provided, an empty string will be used instead.
Unlike ExtUtils::MakeMaker::prompt(), this prompt() does not use
prototypes, so this will work as expected:
my @args = ($prompt, $default);
prompt(@args);
ENVIRONMENT
PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT
If set to a true value, IO::Prompt::Tiny will always return the default
without waiting for user input, just like ExtUtils::MakeMaker does.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The guts of this module are based on ExtUtils::MakeMaker and
IO::Interactive::Tiny (which is based on IO::Interactive). Thank you
to the authors of those modules.
SEE ALSO
• IO::Prompt
• IO::Prompt::Simple
• Prompt::Timeout
• Term::Prompt
SUPPORT
Bugs / Feature Requests
Please report any bugs or feature requests through the issue tracker at
<https://github.com/dagolden/IO-Prompt-Tiny/issues>. You will be
notified automatically of any progress on your issue.
Source Code
This is open source software. The code repository is available for
public review and contribution under the terms of the license.
<https://github.com/dagolden/IO-Prompt-Tiny>
git clone https://github.com/dagolden/IO-Prompt-Tiny.git
AUTHOR
David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is Copyright (c) 2012 by David Golden.
This is free software, licensed under:
The Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004
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