Hello Monks, I am havng a issue with an if statement. I have a sub funtion asking th e cusotmer a quesiton which then calls another sub funtion that just get's the user input. I have an if statement, if the answer doesn't equal Y or N, then prompt them again for an Y or N answer. It get's to the if statement and calls the autoSubmit function again, after the end user has answers the question wrong again, for some reason the program is dying and not prompting them again. Any ideas? 

my $autoSubmit;
sub autoSubmit{
   print "Would you like the logs submitted? Y\\N?: ";
   $autoSubmit = getInput;
   return $autoSubmit;
}

autoSubmit;
    if(( lc($autoSubmit) ne "y") and ($autoSubmit ne "n"))
    {
    print "You did not enter in Yes or No.  Please try again\n";
    autoSubmit;
    }

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In reply to Recursive If statement not working. by Anonymous Monk

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