I am having trouble with this...its gotta be something simple but I just don't seem to be able to put my finger on it. I am very new to programming as well as perl.

here is my code: 

use strict;

my %commands = (
    "command1" => \&sub1,
    "command2" => \&sub2,
    "command3" => \&sub3,
    "command4" => \&sub4,
    "command5" => \&sub5,
    "command6" => \&sub6,
    "exit" => sub { die "Goodbye" }
);

while(1){    
    print "1. command1\n";
    print "2. command2\n";
    print "3. command3\n";
    print "4. command4\n";
    print "5. command5\n";
    print "6. command6\n";
    print "7. exit\n";
    print "\n\n";
    print "Please choose an option from the menu above: ";
    chomp(my $commands = <STDIN>);
            if ($commands{my $string}) {
            $commands{$string}->();
            } else {
            print "No such command: $string\n";
    } 
}

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it keeps printing "No such command" no matter what I type...can't put my finger on it...I left out the subs from the above code because I figured it was irrelivent.

Any help would be great!

2001-04-21 Edit by Corion : Added CODE tags and formatting

In reply to Simple menu.. by Anonymous Monk

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