Hi Guys,

I'm writing a perl program to get an array of numbers/charaters and add the number but when the character "q" or "Q" if received it should exit.

print "Enter a array of any number of elements \n";
@x=<>;
chomp @a;
print "@x \n";
foreach(@x)
   {
if(($_>0)&&($_<21))
      {
         $y+=$_;
         print "Inside sum logic $_\n";
      }
      elsif(($_ eq "q")||($_ eq "Q"))
      {
         print "Inside last $_ \n";
         last;
      }
   }

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but for some reason i don't see my check for "q" or "Q" getting true! Can somebody suggest what could be the problem?

Thanks :)

In reply to simple perl program not working by heman

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