How can I enter a password using Perl and replace the characters with '*'?

Question

I have a Perl script that requires the user to enter a password. How can I echo only \'*\' in place of the character that the user types, as they type it?

I\'m using

Answer 1

Have you tried storing the string (so that your program can still read it) and find out its length then create a string of the same length, but only use '*'?