getting input in perl

[Tk007LwZFJW5ej]

Is there a built-in way to get user input word-by-word (rather than line-by-line) from STDIN in perl, or do I have to code that myself?

[trent.josephsen]

You can fiddle with $/ to change the separator <FILEHANDLE> uses, which is a newline by default (careful changing it as it changes for the entire module -- see here (http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=287647) for more details), or you can use Perl's read built-in if you want to do it the hard way.