This has nothing to do with your problem, but you might want to use a HEREDOC for your menu, like so:

do { print <<END; Which computer would you like to cold start? 1 - comp1 2 - comp2 3 - comp3 4 - comp4 5 - comp5 END ...

I downloaded the code as shown and it works exactly as expected. Clears the screen, shows the menu, quits on a valid selection, repeats menu on an invalide selection. Not sure what is wrong with your setup.

Also this might not be very useful or appealing if you can't get the basic script to work, but why not make the menu procedurally generated?

until ($question >= 1 and $question <= @pc) { print "Computer list:\n"; print "$_)\t$pc[$_-1]\n" for (1..@pc); print "Which computer would you like to cold start? "; chomp($question = <STDIN>); }

You can move the until to the front, since $question is undef so it will always run at least once.


$,=qq.\n.;print q.\/\/____\/.,q./\ \ / / \\.,q.    /_/__.,q..
Happy, sober, smart: pick two.

In reply to Re: Trouble Creating a Menu by xyzzy
in thread Trouble Creating a Menu by at2marty

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":



  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.