Thanks for trying to help. I really appreciate it!
re:(a) a new window appear, display some program output (possibly too quickly to read), then disappear; or (b) the window containing the initial command prompt disappear as soon as the program finishes?
Both a and b. That is what is so frustrating. Well, that and my brain doesn't think in code. Yes, sometimes it disappears as soon as the program finishes and sometimes nothing happens when I hit enter, no error, it just has the path that I typed. Other times it runs and tells me what lines have errors.
Re: your suggestion. I'm only 2 days into this class so I'm not sure what you mean. Here is my code and yes I know there are errors but won't be able to find them until I can run it. Can you add what you were telling me to do so I can try it?
#Noel
use strict;
my $numone;
my $numtwo;
print "Please enter first number ";
$numone=<STDIN>;
print "Please enter second number ";
$numtwo=<STDIN>;
if ($numone < $numtwo);
{
print $numone;
print $numtwo;
}
elsif
{
print $numtwo;
print $numone;
}