Julia: Console Input Validation - console

Question

How do you guys handle console input validation? In C++, case/switch is my goto...
I was trying a recursive function but was getting locked in lower levels. Plus that might be overdoing it. I did manage a while loop with an "exclusive or" but, that is not really scalable.
function prob6()
println("Pick a number; any number:")
x = readline(stdin)
y = parse(Int64, x)
z = 0
println("Select 1 or 2")
p1 = readline(stdin)
p2 = parse(Int64, p1)
select = p2
while xor((p2 == 1), (p2 == 2)) == false
println("Select 1 or 2")
p1 = readline(stdin)
p2 = parse(Int64, p1)
select = p2
end
if select == 1
for i in 1:y
print("$i ")
z = z + i
end
else
z = 1
for i in 1:y
print("$i ")
z = z * i
end
end
println(z)
end
Any alternatives?

Answer 1

There are many ways. I usually create a validation loop to check the type of the input item, and will use tryparse instead of parse, since it will not throw an error if input is malformed:
function queryprompt(query, typ)
while true
print(query, ": ")
choice = uppercase(strip(readline(stdin)))
if (ret = tryparse(typ, choice)) != nothing
return ret
end
println()
end
end
n = queryprompt("Integer please", Int64)
println(n)
x = queryprompt("Float please", Float64)
println(x)