Btw this i'm just coding for fun.

Maybe then you don't need our help? and we should spend our time on people who are coding because they are trying to learn, or trying to earn a living, or trying to help someone else earn a living? Or even trying to fulfill a life-long dream as software inventor?

I would hope that you are trying to learn something from this "fun". What output are you getting? What do you mean "doesn't work"? We can't read your mind.

If I were to make a vague guess here, you are trying to read three things (name, age, gender) from STDIN. You then print out three new lines to STDOUT. You think that printing those new lines should send stuff to STDIN. And that the stuff will be automatically read and printed out in the final three lines, just as if you hit the return key 3x on the keyboard.

If so, some points to note:

• chomp($name... female;} is not some sort of form definition that only gets activated when you issue the print "\n\n\n" or the <> at the bottom of your sample code. I can see how someone used to working with HTML might think that way, but this is procedural code. The steps happen in the same order that you write them. If you don't send something to standard in via the key board or command line, your program will hang at the first chomp($name=<>).
• print "\n\n\n" sends data to STDOUT. This is a separate stream from STDIN (the thing that <> reads from). Even if the program reached this line (which it won't because it hangs at the first chomp($name=<>)), data sent to STDOUT would normally never be seen by something reading from STDIN.

Best, beth

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