Forgive me if i am not 100% clear on my question, its Monday morning and i have not had my first cup of coffee yet ;)

I have a script i am writing that will run in a console. In one of the parts of the script I have a menu where a user will need to choose which system he wants to ftp processed files to. The menu in question is a list of 40+ systems in it and I am wondering if there was a cleaner way of displaying all the options in the console that just doing a whole mess load of print/switch statements. I have found this makes it a pain in the butt to go back and make any changes to the list (ie adding a new system) to the list.

here is some example code of how i am displaying it 

#displays the menu
sub menu {
    print "Please pick which system you wish to FTP to:\n";
    print "1.) system1\n"; 
    print "2.) system2\n";
         etc..
    etc..
    chomp(my $option = <>);
}


#switch statment using switch::perlish
#hostnames changed to protect the innocent

while ($option ne "q") {
  menu();    
  switch $option, sub {
    case '1',
        sub {dftp("hostname_to_system1")}; 
    case '2',
        sub {dftp("hostname_to_system2")};
    etc
    etc
    case 'q',
        sub {exit};
}

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Thanks for the help!

In reply to how to manage a large console menu by paulehr

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