Perl IDE standard input not working

Question

I use padre 0.64 as the Perl IDE for Windows Vista. The standard input command does not work, I tried the same code in the cmd line and worked ie

my $k = <>; print $k; 

Is there any way to fix this?

Answer 1

This is a pretty old version of the Padres. The internal output window is only an output window. You need to enable "Use external window for execution" (by checking the box). At 0.91, it is in Tools → Preferences → Perl 5 Language, but it was somewhere else at 0.64.

It used to be in "Tools → Settings → Launch Options"