On 4/10/06, joseph tacuyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But if i declare the value of $month in hard code it runs without glitch > but i like to have an input from keyboard. plz enlighten.
> my $month = (<STDIN>); You're not chomp()ing $month, so it will have a trailing newline character in the input data. chomp(my $month = <STDIN>); Hope this helps! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>