At 11:09 AM 1/31/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I am attempting a program that reads a list of numbers from the screen until
>the number 999 is read. It then prints the sum of all numbers read- with
>the exception of the 999.
>
>My code looks like:
>
>until ($number=999) {
>print "Please input your number:\n";
>chomp($number=<STDIN>);
>@a=$number;
>}
>foreach $i (@a) {
>$c+=$i;
>}
>if ($number=999) {
>print "Your total is: $c\n"
>}
>
>The program immediately terminates with and the line "Your total is:" is
>output with a a blank value. It never even prompts me to input a number.
>What am I doing wrong?
= is an assignment operator. Equality is ==
Roger
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