oh hai, monks.

I am re-trying my hand at perl and going through the Lllama one more time.

I'm attempting exercise 3 on chapter 4.

here's what I came up with:

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

sub avg {

   my $total;
   foreach (@_) {

   $total += $_;

  }
  print "This is the value of \$total: $total \n ";
  my $num = (@_);
  print "This is the value of \$num: $num \n";
  return $total / $num;
}

sub above_avg {
    my $tot_avg = &avg(@_);
    print "This is the value of \$tot_avg $tot_avg \n";
    my @product;
    foreach (@_) {
      if ($_ > $tot_avg) {
         (@product)  = $_;
      }
    }
   print "This is the value of \@product @product \n";
   return @product;
}
   
print "Please enter a series of numbers: ";
my @entered = (<STDIN>);
print "Here are the numbers above the average: ", &above_avg(@entered)
+, "\n";

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The assignment is to produce a list of numbers that are above the average of a set of numbers input by the user.

For some reason, my array (@product) doesn't seem to be acting like an array. It only accepts ONE number instead of however many are above the average. Any hints?

Thanks!

In reply to array does not accept more than one number by bluethundr

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