Hello Monks!

I am brand new to Perl, as well as programming, and have been reading the book Beginning Perl by Curtis "Ovid" Poe. I browsed the internet for hours to no avail, so forgive me if this a repost. At the end of Chapter 5 the following excercise is asked:

"You’re writing a game and want to randomly generate a character’s statistics for strength, intelligence, and dexterity. Each statistic is determined by summing the values of two rolls of a six-sided die. For example, if you determine the character’s strength and roll the die twice and get the values 2 and 6, the characters strength is 8 (2 + 6). Write the code to generate a new char- acter. Remember that the code to simulate one roll of a six-sided die is 1 + int(rand(6)) (from Chapter 4). You use a heredoc (see Chapter 3) to print the character’s statistics."

He gives the following code with it : 
 my %stat_for = (
strength => undef,
intelligence => undef,
dexterity => undef,

);

# add your code here

print <<”END_CHARACTER”;
Strength: $stat_for{strength}
Intelligence: $stat_for{intelligence}
Dexterity: $stat_for{dexterity}
END_CHARACTER

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And this is what I came up with: 

 #!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;

my %stat_for = (
        strength => undef,
        intelligence => undef,
        dexterity => undef,
);

while ( my ( $stat_name, $randvalue ) = each %stat_for ) {
        my $randvalue = ( 1 + int(rand(6)) );
        my $randv2 = ( 1 + int(rand(6)) );
        my $true = $randvalue + $randv2;

print <<"END";
Strength: $true\n
Intelligence: $true\n
Dexterity: $true\n
END
}

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My problem is that this prints 3 times, and I only want it to print once. So I'm looking for the correct way to write this code. Also, this chapter was about if/elsif, for/foreach, while/until, and given/when; And I'm not sure if I should be using them here. I know mine is off of what he laid out, and more than likely horrid. But, it's the best I could come up with, being all new to this. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

In reply to New to Perl: Hashes and int(rand()) by Einzig

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