$ perl -Mstrict -w -e'while(1){ chomp( my $i = ); $i eq "yes" && print "yes" && last; $i eq "no" && print "no" && last }' #### #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; $|++; while(1) { chomp( my $i = ); if( $i eq 'yes' ) { print "Yes entered for system.\n"; last } if( $i eq 'no' ) { print "No entered for system.\n"; last } } #### my $response = qr/^(yes|no)$/; while( chomp( $_ = ) ) { /$response/ and print "$1 entered for system.$/" and last }