This is a little experimentation on the exercises in the "Learning Perl" book, this what I tried:

 
#! /usr/perl
use warnings;


print "Enter a string"; 
$string = <STDIN>; 
print "Enter value";
    chomp($num = <STDIN>);
$result = $string x "$num";

print "The result is :\n $result";


if ($result >= "100"){
    print "Too big, bye";
} else {
 
}

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$result doesn't want listen to my "if" control structure :( so it goes 100+.

The goal was to have the script detect if the output would be more than 100. And then display a message

Help please ?

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