hail monks!

OK, i am just trying to write a simple command line based program that accepts input from the user (win32 based).

i was looking for the best way to implement this terminal based program, should i use getc ? or POSIX module off of CPAN... i have never really written one of these before, so i am not sure how to go about it.

the basics i need it to do:

• display a menu and have the user enter (1-X) to do do something
• when 'q' is pressed exit
• loop through and ask the user question and wait for a response... and do some other things

thus far i just have (very basic):

my ($getch);

while (1)
{
    print "Enter a something: ";
    $getch = getc;

    print "\n\n$getch\n\n";

    exit if ($getch =~ /^q/);
}
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is this all i need to do? any suave way of implementing this? thanks for the help!

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