From: cjc26@... (Cliff Crawford)
Date: 2001-02-21T13:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11212] Re: better "gets"?

* Nikita Proskourine <nop1@cornell.edu> menulis:
| Hi,

Hi. :)


| I am a Ruby newbie and would like to know if there is a way to get user input 
| in Ruby in such a way that backspace would delete the last typed character. I 
| know that "gets" in C or Ruby doesn't let you do that, but I miss that 
| functionality from Basic's "input" function.

You can use the readline built-in function.

irb(main):001:0> readline
blah bladssdf^H^H^H^H^Hh blah.
"blah blah blah.\n"


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