The quick answer would be because when you input $c it includes the newline character. You need to "chomp" it off, so add this to your script:
chomp $c; Shane On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:35 AM, saran <simssa...@gmail.com> wrote: > i am new to perl. please help me with this piece of code below. > answer wat it prints is correct but the format has to adjusted...! > program to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit > > ********************************************************************************** > #!/usr/bin/perl > use warnings; > use strict; > > print "Celsius to Fahrenheit Conversion\n"; > print "Enter the value of Celsius to be converted:"; > > my $c = <STDIN>; > my $f = ($c*1.8) + 32; > print "$c"."C is equal to ", "$f","F","\n" > > *************************************************************************** > Output > > Celsius to Fahrenheit Conversion > Enter the value of Celsius to be converted:40 > 40 > C is equal to 104F > ************************************************************************* > > why does "C is equal to 104F" prints on a new line rather than "40 C > is equal to 104F" > on a single line... > please help > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >
