I Have been playing around with this for a while now but cant seem to get the if statement to run the correct subroutine. The script runs trough but only seems to run the subroutine which adds the symbolic links (&addlinks) no matter what is in STDIN I can supply the full code if necessary. Help much appreciated. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Cwd;
my $dir = getcwd;

print "Would you like to add or remove symbolic links?\n";
my $answer = <STDIN>;
chomp $answer;

if ($answer eq "add" || "a") {
&addlinks;
} elsif ($answer eq "remove" || "r") {
&rmlinks;
} else {exit 0;
}

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In reply to Subroutines within if statements by muizelaar

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