Meriwether Lewis wrote: > > Hi Gurus! Hello,
> I currently am displaying a list of choices for > the user to select: > > 1. 1996 Corvette > 2. 2001 Hummer > 3. 1985 Blazer > 4. 1987 Firebird > > I'm asking the user to enter a comma separated > list of their choices. > > If the user enters: > > 1,3,4 > > I need to store the year and make of their > selections in different variables and process > each one. I'm not sure how to coorelate the > 1,2,3,4 with each year and make. > Any help is appreciated. Perhaps this will help get you started: my @data = ( '1996 Corvette', '2001 Hummer', '1985 Blazer', '1987 Firebird', ); for ( 0 .. $#data ) { print $_ + 1, ". $data[$_]\n"; } my @sel; do { print 'Your selection(s) is/are: '; @sel = map --$_, grep $_ > 0 && $_ <= @data, <STDIN> =~ /\d+/g; } until @sel; print "You selected: @[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]