You probably want one of the two builtin selects.

The one-argument form sets the default output file. The four-argument form awaits I/O availability. The latter is nicely wrapped in IO::Select.

The POSIX module comes with perl, but it has no select function.

What are you trying to do?

At least http://search.cpan.org does not know of a package called POSIX::SELECT. Where did you find the name of that package? If you can't find a precompiled package, you will have to compile it yourself. Most likely, guessing from its name, POSIX::Select tries to provide POSIX semantics for select, but on Win32, select does not work for filehandles, only for sockets. Maybe the module caters for Win32 separately, but I would doubt that from its name.

So, if you don't find POSIX::Select, maybe you can tell us what problem you want to solve, so we can recommend alternatives?

What I want is to use select statement as in other languages like C or C++ ..... I want to select from a no. of choices. Please let me know if it is possible or not . If it is possible then what is the ppd file to use.

Perhaps you are looking for Shell::POSIX::Select?

Ah, then what you want is a switch like statement .
There's a module : switch .

Or you can do it in a great number of various ways, the most common one is using a named block with last:

SWITCH: {
      if (expression) { statement(s); last SWITCH; }
      if (expression) { statement(s); last SWITCH; }
      default statement(s);
}
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update : don't try to be funky by using that switch module :) just use the if / last style ! See the answers by corion , holli and virtualsue !!

for ($animal)
    {
        /camel/     and do Humps(2), last;
        /dromedary/ and do Humps(1), last;
    }
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