Well, I finally managed to make a script with no help from others! It is a silly "Guess the Random Number" game with no use except the experience of making it. If anyone wants to advise me of better ways to do the things I did, please feel free to respond!
The real reason for the post is that I can't understand why the subroutine was doing something. The second line of the sub is now my $numb=$_[0]; and works fine, but when it was $numb=@_; it always had 1 as the value no matter what was passed. Why was that so? What was happening?
TIA
jg
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
srand;
print "I have a number between 1 and 19.\nTry to guess it.\n";
my $number=int(rand(20));
guess_routine($number);


sub guess_routine {
        my @guesses;
        my $numb=$_[0];
        print "Guess?\n";
        my $in=<STDIN>;
        chomp ($in);
        print "You said $in is the number.\n";
        while ($in != $numb){
            if ($in > $numb) {
                print "Too high! ";
            }else{
                 print "Too low! ";
            }
            push (@guesses, $in);
            @guesses = sort{$a <=> $b} @guesses;
            print "\nSo far you've guessed @guesses.";
            print "\nWhat is your guess?\n";
            $in=<STDIN>;
            chomp ($in);
            }
    print "\nYes, $numb is the number!\n";
    print "So you want another go?\n";
    chomp(my $answer=<STDIN>);
    if ($answer =~/^y/i){
        @guesses="";
        print "\nI have a new number between 1 and 19.\nTry to guess i
+t.\n";
        $number=int(rand(20));
        guess_routine($number);
    }else{
        print "\nOK, bugger off then!\n";
        exit 0;
    }
}

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