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#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Term::ReadKey;

STDOUT->autoflush(1);

# this version run on Windows and use a pwd.txt file created by
# the perl program ; otherwise encoding issue may follow
# following sub needs to be used first by uncommenting the main call
sub write_password {
    print ("Enter Password: ") ; 
    my $password = <STDIN>;
    my $file_path = 'pwd.txt';
    open(my $fh, '>', $file_path) or die "Cannot open file '$file_path' for writing: $!";
    print $fh $password;
    close($fh);
    print ("\n"); 
    print "Password written to '$file_path'\n";
}

sub printhex {
    my $str = shift ; 
    foreach my $char (split //, $str) {
        printf "%02x ", ord($char);
    }
    print "\n";
}

# Function to read password from file
sub read_password_from_file {
    #unecessary
    #binmode(STDIN, ':crlf'); 
    my $file_path = shift;
    #unecessary
    #local $/ = "\r\n" ;  # CR, use "\r\n" for CRLF or "\n" for LF
    open(my $fh, '<', $file_path) or die "Cannot open file '$file_path' for reading: $!";
    my $password = <$fh>;
    close($fh);
    #printhex ($password) ;  
    chomp($password); 
    print "'$password'\n" ;
    #$password =~ s/\r?\n$//; # Remove newline character
    #$password = substr($password, 2) ; # BOM File starts with FF FE 
    printhex($password ) ; # "\'$password\'\n" ;
    #$password = "abcde" ;  
    return $password;
}

# Main program
sub main {
    #write_password(); # to uncomment for first use
    my $correct_password = read_password_from_file("pwd.txt") ; 
    print "Enter password: ";
    ReadMode('noecho');  # Turn off echo
    my $entered_password = ReadLine(0);
    ReadMode('restore');  # Restore echo
    chomp($entered_password);
    print "\n";

    # Compare entered password with the correct password
    if ($entered_password eq $correct_password) {
        print "Access granted!\n";
    } else {
        print "Access denied!\n";
        print "'$entered_password' not eq '$correct_password' \n"; 
        printhex ($entered_password); 
        printhex ($correct_password) ; 
        print "The end! \n" ; 
    }
}

# Call main function
main();