Hi, and thank you Perl Monks for your time. I have a homework assignment and we are using O'Reilly Learning Perl. I have completed all the assignments to chapter 6 pretty easily. Most of these programs have been 5 lines or less of code. But now we were thrown a midterm that I feel is way advanced for the 6 chapters we are up to. I have a question about a loop.

we are suppossed to enter a loop, and prompt the user for a product name and ad it to an array and then prompt the user for the quantity and then store the value in a hash (both of these are accessed later to print on a receipt.)

I have two questions:

1. is the user prompted embedded in the loop our outside of it? The book gives examples of loops dealing with arrays that are hard-coded and not input by users (or at least I cant find one)

2. and I am not sure if I would use a "foreach" or a "while"

thank you, I really want to figure this out and just need some direction

thank you for your time, sierra

In reply to seeking advice on loops by sierrastar

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