[ale] php-cli text input

David Hamm ale at spinnerdog.com
Thu Nov 17 20:07:10 EST 2011


Never mind.  I found what I needed.

thanks

On Thursday, November 17, 2011 04:07:41 pm David Hamm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In php-cli, I'm looking for a way to allow a terminal user to edit a file
> name before saving it.  The program should prompt the user like this.
> 
> Save file as:  yourfile.txt
> 
> And the user should be able to edit the name of the file.
> 
> I've looked at readline() but readline doesn't let you set an
> initial/default value.  I've also tried to find a way to push the default
> value into the keyboard buffer but no luck.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?
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