Currently I have this piece of code: 
use strict; 
use warnings; 
my $input; 
my $length; 
print "Enter ID Number: "; 
$input = <STDIN>; 
chomp($input); 
do { 
$input = "0" . $input; 
$length = length($input); 
} until $length eq "11";

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The whole point of this is the make $input 11 characters long so it can be compared with another variable read from a file. What I would like to know is is there a better way to do this?

edited: Tue Aug 13 15:05:35 2002 by jeffa - added code tags, removed unnecessary br tags

In reply to Is There A Better Way? by The_Shadow

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