[ale] php-cli text input

[Richard Bronosky]

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On Nov 17, 2011 8:07 PM, "David Hamm" <ale at spinnerdog.com> wrote:

> 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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