On Jul 30, Tómas Guðmundsson said:
>my $phone_book = qw{
> Fred 0123
> John 4567
> Bill 8901
>};
If you had warnings on, you'd see that this wasn't doing very much.
>my $selection = 1;
>do {
> print "\n Please select one choice";
> print "\n 1. Enter name.";
> print "\n 2. Quit.\n";
>
>chomp(my $selection = <STDIN>);
Here's the problem you're having: remove the 'my' here.
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