I have written this code to change a key in the registry to a specific path. When a user selects a database , the program is supposed to edit the registry and then launch the program - reading the registry key.

The problem is this.

The menu options will work intermittently. Some times option 1 will work perfectly , and other time option 1 will change the key value to an option 2 value.

What am I doing wrong?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Excerpt from the Perl code - Editing the registry
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print ("Please choose a database to generate a report from.[1-3]\n");
print ("[1]    Database1\n");
print ("[2]    Database2\n");
print ("[3]    Database3\n");
print (">");
$a = <STDIN>;
chomp $a;

if ($a == "1")
    {
        $pathe = "K:\\path1";
    }
elsif ($a == "2")
    {
        $pathe = "K:\\path2";
    }
elsif ($a == "3")
    {
        $pathe = "K:\\path3;
    }

chomp $pathe;

use Win32::Registry;
$p = "CLSID\\{42DE62C7-AD04-11D1-BE7E-00E0290B0890}\\LocalServer32";
$main::HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT->Open($p, $CurrVer) || 
        die "Open: $!";
$CurrVer->GetValues(\%vals); # get sub keys and value -hash ref
foreach $k (keys %vals) {
    $key = $vals{$k};
}
$CurrVer->SetValue("",REG_SZ, "$pathe");
foreach $k (keys %vals) {
    $key = $vals{$k};
    print "$$key[2]\n";
}


$p = "CLSID\\{42DE62C7-AD04-11D1-BE7E-00E0290B0890}\\LocalServer32";
$main::HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT->Open($p, $CurrVer) || 
        die "Open: $!";
$CurrVer->GetValues(\%vals); # get sub keys and value -hash ref
foreach $k (keys %vals) {
    $key = $vals{$k};
}
$CurrVer->SetValue("",REG_SZ, "$pathe");
foreach $k (keys %vals) {
    $key = $vals{$k};
    print "$$key[2]\n";
}

$p = "CLSID\\{E850B195-F118-4C04-9E57-9901CDB7430D}\\LocalServer32";
$main::HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT->Open($p, $CurrVer) || 
        die "Open: $!";
$CurrVer->GetValues(\%vals); # get sub keys and value -hash ref
foreach $k (keys %vals) {
    $key = $vals{$k};
}
$CurrVer->SetValue("",REG_SZ, "$pathe");
foreach $k (keys %vals) {
    $key = $vals{$k};
    print "$$key[2]\n";
}

$p = "CLSID\\{7C4A7B0C-6055-4551-B870-F112BE54C094}\\LocalServer32";
$main::HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT->Open($p, $CurrVer) || 
        die "Open: $!";
$CurrVer->GetValues(\%vals); # get sub keys and value -hash ref
foreach $k (keys %vals) {
    $key = $vals{$k};
}
$CurrVer->SetValue("",REG_SZ, "$pathe");
foreach $k (keys %vals) {
    $key = $vals{$k};
    print "$$key[2]\n";
}

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