I could, but the book also mentions a hint to using the bitwise operator. Loops are still to come. =)
Ryan From: Hal Wigoda <hal.wig...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:07:18 -0500 To: Ryan Munson <ryan.barrac...@elboardo.com> Subject: Re: need some help with writing a basic program Use a while or for loop On Sep 12, 2011 1:58 PM, "Ryan Munson" <ryan.barrac...@elboardo.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am running through a good book on Perl and am having some issues with a > script I am trying to create for one of the practice exercises (I am > teaching myself Perl for work). Just to let you know the solution does not > involve using an if statement because this is in the next chapter. > > The objective is to "Write a program that asks for a decimal less than 256 > and converts it to binary." > > Any help would be greatly appreciated! > > #!/usr/bin/perl > # dec-less-than-exercise.pl <http://dec-less-than-exercise.pl> > > use strict; > use warnings; > > print "Decimal Less Than 1.0\n\nPlease enter a decimal number less than 256: > "; > > chomp(my $dec = <STDIN>); > $dec = $dec < 256; > print $dec, "is less than 256! ", "\n"; > $dec = oct($dec); > print $dec, "is your binary value. ", "\n"; > > Ryan Munson > > >
