Hello,

I have a screen and I want to prompt the users for 1 of 3 choices.
Let's say I have a screen that says:

Choose 1 of the 3 options:
1=Turkey
2=Steak
3=Apple

Choose one:

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What would be a good method to code this?

Is there a perl CASE statement or am I doing a bunch of if-then statemetents?
i.e.

$choice=<STDIN>;
if ($choice="1") {
   $choice="Turkey";
}
else choice="2"...etx

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Ultimately I am going to have many choices (10-20).
Any suggestions on how to tackle this efficiently?

Thanks,
He who laughs last, doesn't get the joke.

In reply to STDIN method? by vivekvp

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