How can I enter a password using Perl and replace the characters with '*'?

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Published on 2009-03-31T13:54:15Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 17:23 UTC
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I have a Perl script that requires the user to enter a password. How can I echo only '*' in place of the character that the user types, as they type it?

I'm using Windows XP/Vista.

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