I am working on a script that presents a menu and asks the user to select a choice. I don't quite understand why it is not working like I think it should.

What I get is a blank screen, and if I make a choice, the script briefly prints the menu then continues on.

Here is a snippet of my script (it is quite long).

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $question;
my $computer;
my @pc = qw(comp1 comp2 comp3 comp4 comp5);

# Find out which computer to cold start
system("clear");
do {
    print "Which computer would you like to cold start?\n";
    print "1 - comp1
2 - comp2
3 - comp3
4 - comp4
5 - comp5\n";
    $question = <STDIN>;
    chomp($question);
} until ($question >= 1) & ($question <= 5);

$question--;
$computer = $pc[$question];

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Any advice is certainly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

In reply to Trouble Creating a Menu by at2marty

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