Interactive input when running perl in Eclips

Hello,

Thank you very much for your reply.

The scripts are:

my $confirmed = 0;
while (! $confirmed) {   
    printf("Please type the name of this application ( Format: Application_Name-Version ): ");
    $app_name = <STDIN>;
    chop $app_name;
   
    $app_name =~ m/(^[^-]*)-(.*$)/;
    if ($1 && $2) {
        print("\nName: [$1]\tVersion: [$2]\n\n");
    } else {
        print("\nMust be in the Format: Application_Name-Version\n\n");
        next;
    }   
   
    my $valid = 0;
    while (! $valid) {   
        printf("Will create folder named [$app_name], is this correct?(yes/no): ");
        my $input = <STDIN>;
        chop $input;
        if ( $input =~ m/^(y|Y)(e|E)(s|S)$/ ) {
            $valid = 1;
            $confirmed = 1;
        } elsif ( $input =~ m/^(n|N)(o|O)$/ ) {
            $valid = 1;
        }
    }
}

When executing it in cmd window, the printf and stdin codes are executed in aright sequence. The results shown in the console window are:

Please type the name of this application ( Format: Application_Name-Version ): ant-1.0.0

Name: [ant]     Version: [1.0.0]

Will create folder named [ant-1.0.0], is this correct?(yes/no): yes
The syntax of the command is incorrect.

When running it in Eclipse, first the console does not show anything, after I typed two lines input, the console displays the results of the printf codes:

ant-1.0.0
yes
Please type the name of this application ( Format: Application_Name-Version ):
Name: [ant]    Version: [1.0.0]

Will create folder named [ant-1.0.0], is this correct?(yes/no):

It seems that the printf and STDIN are not processed in a sequence in Eclipse.

Do you know there is  a command can force the printf to be processed before the STDIN?

Thank you very much,

Jing