#!/bin/perl -w use strict; my $input; do { print "Enter a character or word: "; chomp( $input = ); my @chars = split ('',$input); foreach ( @chars ) { my $dec = ord( $_); my @bin; for( reverse 0..7) { if( $dec >= 2**$_) { push @bin, 1; $dec -= 2**$_; } else { push @bin, 0; } } print "$_: " . join('',@bin) . "\n"; } }while( $input);