How can I build a simple menu in Perl?

Question

I\'m working on a Perl script that requires some basic menu functionality. Ultimately I would like each menu to have a few options and then the option to either return to th

Answer 1

You could use a module such as Term::Choose:

use Term::Choose qw( choose );

my $submenus = {
    menu1 => [ qw( s_1 s_2 s_3 ) ],
    menu2 => [ qw( s_4 s_5 s_6 s_7) ],
    menu3 => [ qw( s_8 s_9 ) ],
};
my @menus = ( qw( menu1 menu2 menu3 ) );
my $mm = 0;
MAIN: while ( 1 ) {
    my $i = choose( 
        [ undef, @menus ],
        { layout => 3, undef => 'quit', index => 1, default => $mm }
    );
    last if ! $i;
    if ( $mm == $i ) {
        $mm = 0;
        next MAIN;
    }
    else {
        $mm = $i;
    }
    $i--;
    SUB: while ( 1 ) {
        my $choice = choose(
            [ undef, @{$submenus->{$menus[$i]}} ],
            { layout => 3, undef => 'back' }
        );
        last SUB if ! defined $choice;
        say "choice: $choice";
    }
}