Unbuffered keyboard input???

[Starbase Commander]

My Perl books don't explain how to receive single keystrokes in
real time, like the basic statement "inkey$" or C statement "getc" -
probably because I assume it requires a specific system call depending on
the OS.

It is tough to google using "keyboard" in the search string. I am still
going through the fifty thousand hits

With Linux, can someone clue me in as to what can be used to read the
keyboard as the keys are typed (with Perl)?

Thanks
SC onboard.

 

[Jürgen Exner]

My Perl books don't explain how to receive single keystrokes in
real time, like the basic statement "inkey$" or C statement "getc" -
probably because I assume it requires a specific system call
depending on the OS.

perldoc -q single

"How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?"

jue