As to the array: why not use a hash, the command would be the key, and the location the value. 

  my %hash = ('north' => 'library', 'south' => 'kitchen',
              'east' => 'hallway');

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That way you can simply do a hash lookup to retrieve the location for a command, i.e. $hash{'north'} will yield 'library' as a location.

As to your second problem: 

while(<1>){
  ...
}

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is not what you want. If you just want to read from stdin, simply use <> rather than <1>. If you want an infinite loop (although I don't think so since you're not reading anything in the body of the loop) just use while (1) {...}.

Hope this helps, -gjb-

Update: Oops, as graff points out (thanks) I missed the assignment to $action, but yes, anyway the condition for the while will always fail which is what I tried to explain.

In reply to Re: array games?? by gjb
in thread array games?? by eoin

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