i am in the process of learning Perl. Here's the piece of code i tried.. but does not work... I am trying to compare the list of numbers to their average. "@greatern = $_ " does not seem to work below. It does not save all the values into the array. Alternatively when i use "push", there is a whitespace before each array variable. I am not able to understand the problem here and would like to make the program work in both ways. please help.. ************************************* 
#!/usr/bin/perl

sub addition {
  my(@mynumbers) = @_ ;
  foreach (@mynumbers){
    $sum += $_ ;
  }
    return $sum ;
}

sub avg {
  my(@mynumbers) = @_ ;
  $aver = addition(mynumbers)/($#mynumbers+1) ;
  return $aver ;
}

##
##BELOW DOES NOT WORK AS I WISH.
##

@numlist = <STDIN> ;
$total = addition(@numlist) ;
$average = avg(@numlist) ;
$n = 0 ;
foreach (@numlist) {
  if ($_ > $average) {
   @greater[n] = $_ ;
#    push @greater,$_ ;
# print "greater is @greater \n" ;
    $n++ ;
  }
}
if ( $n > 0 ) {
  print "Following numbers are greater than the average:\n"
;
  print "@greater array size is $#greater\n"
  }
else {
  print "All your numbers are less than or equal to the
average\n" ;
  }

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