Hi all! I'm a Perl newb and I'm writing a Sieve of Eratosthenes. I know users have GOLF'd it on this site but GOLFing is way down the road for me. Anyway, here's what I have:
#!/usr/bin/perl print "Show primes up to: "; chomp($max = <>); @n = (2..$max); @f = (2..sqrt(@n)); foreach $i (@f) { @e = grep {$_ % $i != 0} @n; @n = (); @n = @e; } print "@n\n"; ./sieve.pl Show primes up to: 21 5 7 11 13 17 19
Pretty good! Wait...it is cutting out the 2 and 3. And if I go higher:
./sieve.pl Show primes up to: 31 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31
That's no good. Can someone help show me what i'm missing? Not looking for an answer, just looking for a shove in the right direction. Any help is appreciated.

In reply to What am I missing? by neo_

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