NAME

CTK::CLI - Command line interface

VERSION

Version 1.73

SYNOPSIS

    use CTK::CLI qw/cli_prompt cli_select/;

    my $v = cli_prompt('Your name:', 'anonymous');
    debug( "Your name: $v" );

    my $v = cli_select('Your select:',[qw/foo bar baz/],'bar');
    debug( "Your select: $v" );

or in CTK context (as plugin):

    my $v = $ctk->cli_prompt('Your name:', 'anonymous');
    debug( "Your name: $v" );

    my $v = $ctk->cli_select('Your select:',[qw/foo bar baz/],'bar');
    debug( "Your select: $v" );

DESCRIPTION

Command line interface. Prompt and select methods

cli_prompt

    my $v = cli_prompt('Your name:', 'anonymous');
    debug( "Your name: $v" );

Show prompt string for typing data

cli_select

    my $v = cli_select('Your select:',[qw/foo bar baz/],'bar');
    debug( "Your select: $v" );

Show prompt string for select item

HISTORY

See Changes file

DEPENDENCIES

ExtUtils::MakeMaker

TO DO

  * Use Term::ReadLine module. Sample:

    BEGIN { $ENV{TERM} = "dumb" if $^O eq "MSWin32" }
    use Term::ReadLine ();
    use Text::ParseWords qw(shellwords);

    my $term = Term::ReadLine->new('T01');
    my $prompt = "T> ";
    my $OUT = $term->OUT || \*STDOUT;
    while ( defined ($_ = $term->readline($prompt)) ) {
        last if /^(quit|exit)$/;
        my @w = shellwords($_);
        if (@w) {
        print join(" ",@w),"\n";
            $term->addhistory($_);
        }
    }
    print "\n";

BUGS

* none noted

SEE ALSO

ExtUtils::MakeMaker

AUTHOR

Serż Minus (Sergey Lepenkov) https://www.serzik.com <abalama@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1998-2022 D&D Corporation. All Rights Reserved

LICENSE

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

See LICENSE file and https://dev.perl.org/licenses

cpanm CTK

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install CTK