[erlang-questions] Getting a password from escript / I/O server introduction

[Raimo Niskanen]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:34:39AM +0200, Mikhail Sobolev wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> On 24 November 2011 10:18, Alex Shneyderman <a.shneyderman@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
> > You expect the get_line not to print anything?

Have you tried the simple solution man io suggests; here tried in the
shell not tried in an escript:

Eshell V5.8.4  (abort with ^G)
1> f(V), io:setopts([{echo,false}]), V = io:get_line("Prompt> "), io:setopts([{echo,true}]), {got,V}.
Prompt> {got,"hello\n"}

Nothing is echoed when I type "hello" but the result {got,V}
is printed by the shell.

> >
> > You have two formats in the script. One os for prompting and another
> > one is for output. The get_line is only waiting for the user to enter
> > text then saves it into R and then you do a format again. Are you
> > saying that you do not want the text on line that says "Input > yes"
> > to not say yes ?
> >
> > I actually would not know the answer to that, but I guess it is worth
> > clarifying :-) since it is not at all obvious. The standard behavior
> > on the user input is to output to the screen what she is typing.
> >
> > Yes, what I expect is:
> 
> tmp $ ./q
> > Input >
> >  -> "yes\n"
> >
> 
> --
> Misha
> 
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