Question

I have this program which takes a array of words and asks user to type a sentence which has each of the word from the array:

@words = qw(Hi world thanks);
foreach $word (@words) 
{
        print "Enter a line with word:$word\n";
        chomp($input = <STDIN>);
        if($input=~/$word/i) 
        {
                print "Great\n";
        } else {
                print "Incorrect. Type a line containing $word\n";
        }
}

If the user types a input with the word, it works fine. But if he doesn’t It only prints the error message and moves to the next word. I want it it prompt the user to re-enter inputs for the same word. But how ? I tried next it did not work.

Answer 1

You can use a redo in this case to restart the current iteration.

foreach my $word (@words) 
{
        print "Enter a line with word:$word\n";
        chomp($input = <STDIN>);
        if($input=~/$word/i) 
        {
                print "Great\n";
        } else {
                print "Incorrect. Type a line contaning $word\n";
                redo; # restart current iteration.
        }
}

A less-recommended alternative is to use a goto:

foreach my $word (@words)
{
        INPUT:print "Enter a line with word:$word\n";
        chomp($input = <STDIN>);
        if($input=~/$word/i)
        {
                print "Great\n";
        } else {
                print "Incorrect. Type a line contaning $word\n";
                goto INPUT;
        }
}