1IO::Prompt::Tiny(3)   User Contributed Perl Documentation  IO::Prompt::Tiny(3)
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NAME

6       IO::Prompt::Tiny - Prompt for user input with a default option
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VERSION

9       version 0.003
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SYNOPSIS

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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DESCRIPTION

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
24       prompts with a default.  That's it!
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USAGE

27       The following function may be explicitly imported. No functions are
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30   prompt
31           my $value = prompt($message);
32           my $value = prompt($message, $default);
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34       The prompt() function displays the message as a prompt for input and
35       returns the (chomped) response from the user, or the default if the
36       response was empty.
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38       If the program is not running interactively or if the
39       PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT environment variable is set to true, the default
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42       If no default is provided, an empty string will be used instead.
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44       Unlike ExtUtils::MakeMaker::prompt(), this prompt() does not use
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47         my @args = ($prompt, $default);
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ENVIRONMENT

51   PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT
52       If set to a true value, IO::Prompt::Tiny will always return the default
53       without waiting for user input, just like ExtUtils::MakeMaker does.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

56       The guts of this module are based on ExtUtils::MakeMaker and
57       IO::Interactive::Tiny (which is based on IO::Interactive).  Thank you
58       to the authors of those modules.
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SEE ALSO

61       •   IO::Prompt
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63       •   IO::Prompt::Simple
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65       •   Prompt::Timeout
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SUPPORT

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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AUTHOR

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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