Hello I’m building a command line tool with elixir. And I’m looking for way to allow the user write on the terminal as much as they want and them get that content from the terminal. I seen IO.read(:stdio, :line) but once you hit \n it will stop You can also pass an integer saying how many charac…

How do you want to know if the user has finished typing? A common way to decide that he has finished was by typing an end command followed by enter, so why not do it today as well? def read_undtil_end(acc \\ []) def read_until_end(["end\n"|acc]), do: acc |> Enum.reverse |> Enum.join def read_until_…

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Open a IO session to use within a CLI

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GustavoCaso July 12, 2017, 10:03pm 5

Nevermind I found the solution here Testing recursive IO prompt

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