1IO::Prompt::Tiny(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation IO::Prompt::Tiny(3)
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6 IO::Prompt::Tiny - Prompt for user input with a default option
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9 version 0.003
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12 use IO::Prompt::Tiny qw/prompt/;
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14 my $answer = prompt("Yes or no? (y/n)", "n");
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17 This is an extremely simple prompting module, based on the extremely
18 simple prompt offered by ExtUtils::MakeMaker.In many cases, that's all
19 you need and this module gives it to you without all the overhead of
20 ExtUtils::MakeMaker just to prompt for input.
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22 It doesn't do any validation, coloring, menus, timeouts, or any of the
23 wild, crazy, cool stuff that other prompting modules do. It just
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27 The following function may be explicitly imported. No functions are
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34 The prompt() function displays the message as a prompt for input and
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42 If no default is provided, an empty string will be used instead.
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44 Unlike ExtUtils::MakeMaker::prompt(), this prompt() does not use
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52 If set to a true value, IO::Prompt::Tiny will always return the default
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56 The guts of this module are based on ExtUtils::MakeMaker and
57 IO::Interactive::Tiny (which is based on IO::Interactive). Thank you
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70 Bugs / Feature Requests
71 Please report any bugs or feature requests through the issue tracker at
72 <https://github.com/dagolden/IO-Prompt-Tiny/issues>. You will be
73 notified automatically of any progress on your issue.
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75 Source Code
76 This is open source software. The code repository is available for
77 public review and contribution under the terms of the license.
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79 <https://github.com/dagolden/IO-Prompt-Tiny>
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81 git clone https://github.com/dagolden/IO-Prompt-Tiny.git
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84 David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>
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87 This software is Copyright (c) 2012 by David Golden.
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89 This is free software, licensed under:
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91 The Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004
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95perl v5.34.0 2022-01-21 IO::Prompt::Tiny(3)