Good morning monks. Today I figured I'd post this little script I wrote. It's not that cool and you can propbably point out errors in my writing/syntax style, so feel free to yell at me :)

#!/usr/bin/perl

# Put on your nerd glasses and draw a square!

use strict;
use warnings;

my $balancex = 10; # width

my $repeatx = $balancex; #don't change repeatx!!! use balancex instead
+.
my $repeaty = 10; # height

do{

while($repeatx > 0){    
    print ". "; # change the period to print another character, but ke
+ep the extra space.
    $repeatx -= 1;
    }
print "\n";
$repeatx += $balancex;
$repeaty -= 1;
} until ($repeaty == 0); #corrected by Athanasius & AppleFritter

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No doubt this could be done in much fewer lines, or even as a one-liner :P But as it says it draws a square with periods, and is just fun to look at.

In reply to Draw a Square With Perl! by Dipseydoodle

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