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Term-ReadPasswd-0.01
/ Term::ReadPasswd

NAME

Term::ReadPasswd - Asking the user for a password (for Win32)

SYNOPSIS

use Term::ReadPasswd;
while (1) {
  my $password = read_passwd('password: ');
  redo unless defined $password;
  if ($password eq 'flubber') {
    print "Access granted.\n";
    last;
  } else {
    print "Access denied.\n";
    redo;
  }
}

DESCRIPTION

This module lets you ask the user for a password from the keyboard just as Term::ReadPassword.

Using Term::ReadPassword is a good way to make password prompts, but it doesn't work with ActivePerl under Windows. So I wrote this module.

You can use this module under Windows or Unix. If you use this under Windows, Win32::* modules are required. If you use this under Unix, this acts as a wrapper to Term::ReadPassword.

The read_passwd function is almost same as Term::ReadPassword::read_password function.

The first and second parameters are just same as read_password. The first one is a prompt message, and the second one is timeout value.

The third parameter is different from read_password.

If the third parameter is 0, Ctrl+C will be entered into the input buffer just as any other character.

If the third parameter is 1, the input operation is terminated when the user types Ctrl+C or Esc.

If the third parameter is 2, the input operation is terminated when the user types Esc. If the user types Ctrl+C, the program may be terminated.

If the user types Ctrl+U, the input buffer will be cleared.

BUG

Multibyte characters are not treated properly. (When you want to delete a multibyte character, you must type BackSpace more than once.)

SEE ALSO

Term::ReadPassword, Term::Getch

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2005 Ken Takata <kentkt@anet.ne.jp>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

DOWNLOAD

You can download the latest version from http://webs.to/ken/ (Japanese page)