Hi prospect,

Point #1: Always ALWAYS use strict; and declare your vars with my()!

Now, from your post it is not clear whether you want to check the result of an arithmetic operation, or the length of a string.

The x operator in Perl is not the multiplication operator, but the string (or list) repetition operator. See perlop.

Thus your code creates a string from repeating $string $num times.

To check the length of a string (the only thing that makes sense if you are using x), use length.

use strict; use warnings; use feature 'say';

print 'Enter a string: ';
chomp( my $string = <STDIN> );

print 'Enter a number: ';
chomp( my $num = <STDIN> );

my $result = $string x $num;

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

my $length = length $result;
if ( $length >= 100 ){
    say "Length $length is too big, bye";
} else {
    say "Length $length OK";
}

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The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: result is not listening to if by 1nickt
in thread result is not listening to if by prospect

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