Wow, that is one messy chunk of code you have. A long time ago, Ovid wrote this gem: Clean your room. Please consider using tools such as perltidy to make your code more readable ... for others. Here is what your code looks like after i ran it through perltidy (i'm using the code you orginally posted as saved by betterworld):

use strict; use warnings; my ( $i, $j, $x, $tot ); my @exes; print "Please enter for how many values of x you will be finding the S +tandard Deviation.\n"; do { chomp( $i = <> ); print "\nPlease only use numbers.\n" if $i =~ m/\[1-9]/; } until ( $i !~ m/\[1-9]/ ); print "\nPlease input the values of x, one at a time.\n"; for $j ( 1 .. $i ) { do { chomp( $x = <> ); print "\nPlease only use numbers.\n" if $x =~ m/\[1-9]/; } until ( $x !~ m/\[1-9]/ ); push @exes, $x; } undef $x; for (@exes) { $x = $x + $_; } my $ave = $x / $i; for (@exes) { $tot = $tot + ( ( $_ - $ave ) ^ 2 ); } my $deviation = sqrt( $tot / $n ); print "\nThe Standard Deviation of that set of numbers is $deviation.\ +n";
I hope you will agree that posting code that is easier to read by others will help you receive better answers, faster (not that the fast answers you have already received are bad). Help us help you.

jeffa

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B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

In reply to Re: Refusal to Run by jeffa
in thread Refusal to Run by Andrew_Levenson

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