A couple of fixes and a couple of suggestions. First, the mkdir thing has a precedence problem, as tye suggests. Use parenthesis or or to fix it: 
mkdir("$dir", 0777) || die "Could not mkdir \"$dir\": $!\n";

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Second, the chop bothers me, 'cuz it's easy to grab something you don't want. (In this case, it's right, but I prefer chomp).

Third, there are a couple of other ways for doing your menu stuff. Some people prefer this: 

($menu eq 1) && addwant();
($menu eq 2) && addhave();

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When I have to do something like this, I usually use a data structure of references: 
my @actions = qw( \&addwant \&addhave ); # and so forth

# get input

if (defined (my $action = $actions[$menu])) {
    $action->();
} else {
    print "\n\n\nGoodbye!\n";
    exit;
}

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Finally, if you want to clear the screen, there's a bit in perlfaq8 that might help. Not a big deal, though.

In reply to RE: mybooks.pl by chromatic
in thread mybooks.pl by zdog

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