in reply to Menu's in perl

There may be a better module, but Term::Prompt has an option for building a menu. It handles parsing input, making sure the user input a valid menu choice, taking multiple selections, etc. etc. Maybe something like this (pretty much taken straight from the module's documentation):

use warnings; use strict; use Term::Prompt; my %option = ( 1 => sub { system('~/script1.pl') }, 2 => sub { system('~/script2.pl') }, 3 => sub { system('~/script3.pl') }, 4 => sub { exit }, ); my $result; while(1) { $result = prompt("m", { prompt => 'Pick an option', title => 'Menu', items => [ qw (Option1 Option2 Option3 Exit) ], order => 'down', rows => 4, cols => 1, display_base => 1, return_base => 1, accept_multiple_selections => 0, accept_empty_selection => 0, ignore_whitespace => 0, separator => '[,/\s]+' }, '1-3, 4 to exit', '1'); $option{$result}->(); }