From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2009-09-25T04:08:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Force enter in gets

Hi,

Am Freitag, 25. Sep 2009, 01:35:46 +0900 schrieb Jack Bauer:
> Let's say I have a ruby script that gets some user input:
> 
> name = gets
> 
> How can I make it so after 10 seconds of no input (or even if they start
> typing, it'll cut them off after 10 seconds) it will continue? In other
> words, essentially simulate the return key after 10 seconds.

  name = if select [$stdin], nil, nil, 10 then gets else "Joe" end

Bertram


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