Hi, I am running Perl 5.8.9 (I know its old, but thats what installed on the server and I dont have access rights to upgrade) on a Windows 2003 server. I am trying to write a script to set a variable symcli_connect to a value so that other commands can use that value. the symcli value is used by EMC's Symmtrix array. Here's the script: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;


print "Choose The Datacenter\n";
print "1. \Primary\n";
print "2. \Secondary\n";
print "Enter 1 or 2:";

 

$ENV{"SYMCLI_CONNECT"} = "";

our $datacenter=<STDIN>;



if ($datacenter == 1) {
    print "\t\t\t***Setting Environment for Primay***\n";
    
    $ENV{"SYMCLI_CONNECT"} = "primary_server";
   
    system  ("symcfg list");
    
 
} 


 
elsif ($datacenter == 2) {
        print "\t\t\t\t***Setting Environment for Secondary***\n";
       
        
      $ENV{"SYMCLI_CONNECT"} = "secodnary_server";

        system  ("symcfg list");
} 



else {
        print "Please enter only 1 or 2 \n";
}

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Problem is, if I choose the Primary data center, it sets the symcli value correct. If, I run the script again, it outputs as if its set the secondary_server value, but when I try checking the value of symcli_connect, its still the first one. As a result its not working the way its supposed to. Looks like the value of $ENV variable is not being passed outside the if loop. I am a beginner....to Perl and programming as well. Can someone let me know where I am going wrong ?

In reply to Passing value from IF loop by pritesh

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