How to ask and get input from user in elixir exs file

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Hi friends, I have an elixir script file that I load it in my terminal like elixir github.exs or elixir github.exs "user_name", but I want to know can I ask a question from user and get my input-needed?

For example:

Please enter your GitHub username → after that my exs file wait for user and after he/she enter their username I can be able to ask some questions or use the input in my code

Something like shell can ask you no or yes or enter your password etc.

Thank you

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For this, you can use the IO Module

IO.gets("Please enter your GitHub username?\n")
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How can I get the user input, because I print System.argv() and it shows me an empty list

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I think I found, I can put into a variable and can print anywhere I want

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You would do it as @kevinschweikert wrote.

...
username = IO.gets("Please enter your GitHub username?\n")

#username will be what the user entered
some_func(username)
...
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