Hi ROB6789,

Based on your last post, you already know how to get some input from the user through the console (that's a Unix term I guess, in Windows it's the command prompt). In Perl, you use an "if" statement to have your program do different things based on a condition. And "eq" is how you compare two strings to see if they are equal. So you could say 

my $var = <STDIN>;
if ($var eq "something") {
   # this code only gets called if $var contains "something"
} else {
    # this code only gets called if $var doesn't contain "something"
}

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Based on your question, I'm guessing you haven't programmed much before. In that case, Perl maybe isn't the best choice of a first language. But if you want to stick with Perl, you should buy the book Learning Perl by Randal Schwartz. It's a great first book for Perl.

In reply to Re: How do i create different commands for different user inputs by Errto
in thread How do i create different commands for different user inputs by ROB6789

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