Hey Monks, Just starting off in perl (and programming in general) and need to do an exercise but a bit confused on the process.

Trying to create a script that will ask the user to enter a number between 1 and 5 and for it to print a colour represented e.g. if they enter 1, Blue comes up or 3, red gets printed. I've done a bit of research and I know I need to create an array (@) but not too clear on how to do so.

After that I need to assign an emotion to the colour e.g. blue = calm, red = angry. I'd also like to know how to incorporate modulus into this so on even/odd number inputs I can print it out (think ill need an if/else statement for this?)

At the end I'd like it to look like this:

Please enter a number between 1 and 5:

1

Blue. Even. Calm

So far I've got the code below and have no idea how to finish or even progress, any ideas?


print "Please enter a number between 1 and 5 (inclusive) below:";
my $number = <STDIN>;
chomp($number);

my @colours = ("red", "green", "blue", "purple", "black");

my %table = (
    1 => "angry"
    2 => "sick"
    3 => "calm"
    4 => "worried"    
    5 => "sad"
    );

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In reply to Beginner here - basic help by xr6turbo

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