Re: need some help with writing a basic program

2011-09-12 Thread Rob Dixon
On 12/09/2011 20:47, Ryan Munson wrote: The full exercise states: Write a program that asks for a decimal number less than 256 and converts it to binary. (Hint: You may want to use the bitwise and operator 8 times.) Since 256 is 2^8, I am assuming using a computation of 2**8 is involved. You

Re: need some help with writing a basic program

2011-09-12 Thread Jim Gibson
On 9/12/11 Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:47 PM, "Ryan Munson" scribbled: > The full exercise states: > > Write a program that asks for a decimal number less than 256 and converts > it to binary. (Hint: You may want to use the bitwise and operator 8 times.) > > Since 256 is 2^8, I am assuming using a co

Re: need some help with writing a basic program

2011-09-12 Thread Brandon McCaig
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Ryan Munson wrote: > it to binary. (Hint: You may want to use the bitwise and operator 8 times.) > > Since 256 is 2^8, I am assuming using a computation of 2**8 is involved. The answer is in the hint. What does the bitwise-and operator give you? See perldoc perlop

Re: need some help with writing a basic program

2011-09-12 Thread Ryan Munson
The full exercise states: Write a program that asks for a decimal number less than 256 and converts it to binary. (Hint: You may want to use the bitwise and operator 8 times.) Since 256 is 2^8, I am assuming using a computation of 2**8 is involved. Ryan On 9/12/11 3:29 PM, "Brandon McCaig"

Re: need some help with writing a basic program

2011-09-12 Thread Brandon McCaig
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Ryan Munson wrote: > 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

Re: need some help with writing a basic program

2011-09-12 Thread Ryan Munson
I could, but the book also mentions a hint to using the bitwise operator. Loops are still to come. =) Ryan From: Hal Wigoda Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:07:18 -0500 To: Ryan Munson Subject: Re: need some help with writing a basic program Use a while or for loop On Sep 12, 2011 1:58 PM, "Rya

need some help with writing a basic program

2011-09-12 Thread Ryan Munson
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