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Old 05-05-2017
Having trouble getting my interactive perl script to work properly

So I'm making an interactive perl script, but I can't get it to work properly. I'm trying to make a script that tell the user to input either 'q' or 'Q' to terminate the program, or 'c' to continue it. If they input anything other than those three keys, it should prompt the user again and again until they input an appropriate key. If they input a 'q' or 'Q' the program is terminated. If they input 'c' then it continues to do two functions. The second function I'm saving for later, but the first function involves the program asking the user for two three dimensional coordinates, and then computing and outputting a distance. If any of the users inputs weren't a number it would display an error message. This is the code I have set up for all this, but everytime I input anything in the beginning when it asks for the 'q', 'Q', or 'c' inputs it just repeatedly asks the user to keep inputting something, and never exiting or continuing on to the function, even if I input a 'q', 'Q', or 'c'. Any idea what I need to do to fix this, and if there's anything else wrong with my code?

Code:
use warnings;
use strict;
use Scalar::Util 'looks_like_number';
my $i;
$i=0;
while ($i==0)
{
        print "Welcome to an interactive Perl program. Enter either q or Q to terminate the program or c to continue. Enter your key now: ";
        my $input;
        $input = <STDIN>;
        if (($input ne "q") || ($input ne "Q") || ($input ne "c"))
        {
                print "Welcome to an interactive Perl program. Enter either q or Q to terminate the program or c to continue. Enter your key now: ";
        }
        elsif (($input eq "q") || ($input eq "Q"))
        {
                exit;
        }
        else
        {
                print "Please enter one x coordinate: ";
                my $x1;
                $x1 = <STDIN>;
                print "Please enter one y coordinate: ";
                my $y1;
                $y1 = <STDIN>;
                print "Please enter one z coordinate: ";
                my $z1;
                $z1 = <STDIN>;
                print "Please enter a second x coordinate: ";
                my $x2;
                $x2 = <STDIN>;
                print "Please enter a second y coordinate: ";
                my $y2;
                $y2 = <STDIN>;
                print "Please enter a second z coordinate: ";
                my $z2;
                $z2 = <STDIN>;
                my $answer;
                if (($x1 !~ /^-?0/ && looks_like_number($x1)) && ($y1 !~ /^-?0/ && looks_like_number($y1)) && ($z1 !~ /^-?0/ && looks_like_number($z1)) && ($x2 !~ /^-?0/ && looks_like_number($x2)) && ($y2 !~ /^-?0/ && looks_like_number($y2)) && ($z2 !~ /^-?0/ && looks_like_number($z2)))
                {
                        $answer = sqrt(((($x2)-($x1))**2)+((($y2)-($y1))**2)+((($z2)-($z1))**2));
                        print "The distance between the two points is $answer";
                }
                else
                {
                        print "Error, you must only input numbers.";
                }
        }
}


Last edited by RudiC; 05-06-2017 at 02:55 AM..
 

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SIEVESHELL(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     SIEVESHELL(1)

NAME
sieveshell - remotely manipulate sieve scripts SYNOPSIS
sieveshell [--user=user] [--authname=authname] [--realm=realm] [--exec=script] server[:port] sieveshell --help DESCRIPTION
sieveshell allows users to manipulate their scripts on a remote server. It works via MANAGESIEVE, a work in progress. The following commands are recognized: list list scripts on server. put <filename> upload script to server. get <name> [<filename>] get script. if no filename display to stdout delete <name> delete script. activate <name> activate script. deactivate deactivate all scripts. OPTIONS
-u user, --user=user The authorization name to request; by default, derived from the authentication credentials. -a authname, --authname=authname The user to use for authentication (defaults to current user). -r realm, --realm=realm The realm to attempt authentication in. -e script, --exec=script Instead of working interactively, run commands from script, and exit when done. REFERENCES
[MANAGESIEVE] Martin, T.; "A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts", draft-ietf-managesieve-03.txt, Mirapoint, Inc.; May 2001, work in progress. AUTHOR
Tim Martin <tmartin@mirapoint.com>, and the rest of the Cyrus team <cyrus-bugs@andrew.cmu.edu>. perl v5.10.0 2008-04-04 SIEVESHELL(1)
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