How can I have Perl take input from STDIN one character at a time?

Question

I am somewhat a beginner at Perl (compared to people here). I know enough to be able to write programs to do many things with through the command prompt. At one point, I dec

Answer 1

If you are using *nix, you will find Curses useful.

It has a getch method that does what you want.

Term::TermKey also looks like a potential solution.