Hello, Perl monks. I'm having a problem with a little program (actually, it's exercise for chapter 10 in the Llama book). Though I understand the book's solution to the excercise, I don't know what's going on with my solution. Here's part of it, which is a sort-of-working script (it runs). 
 
$x = int (1 + rand 100);
print "What is the secret random number? ";
while (<STDIN>) { 
    $guess = $_; 

if ($guess eq "quit") { 
    last; 
    } 

elsif ($guess == $x) { 
    print "You got it, brother!\n"; 
    last; 
 } 
elsif ($guess > $x) { 
    print $y;
print "Too high! Try again!\n";

}
elsif ($guess < $x) {
    print "Too low! Try again!\n"; 

 }
}

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What I don't understand is why the "quit" comparison isn't working. When the user types in "quit", the program states that this is "Too low." Is it being converted to zero? I have it using an "eq" operator, so why doesn't it take the input as a string? Shouldn't the program be doing the conversion automatically, depending on the operator? Thanks, Barry

In reply to conversion between numbers and strings? by Anonymous Monk

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