Hey monks,

So I want to be able to find the dividend from a stock. I've managed to do it in a simple way, but this time, I want to do it using a recursive routine. I can't seem to figure out how to do this. But anyway, here's the original script along with a few miserable attempts.

use warnings;
print "A stock xyz's price is now $100. It has 3.78% dividend. You hav
+e 1000 of it and reinvest the dividend into the stock.\n";
my %hash;
@stocknum = 1000;
@dividend = 6780;

while ($#dividend != 20) {
    $a = $dividend[-1];
    $stock = $stocknum[-1];
    $div_total= $stock*100*0.0678;
    
    $stock_total = $stock + int($a/100);
    push (@stocknum, $stock_total);    
    push (@dividend, $div_total);
        if ($#dividend == 20) {
            last;
}
}

dividend (@dividend);
sub dividend {
@new = shift;
$stock_num = $stocknum[-1];
$div = $stock_num*100*0.0678;
push (@_, $div);
@hash{@stocknum} = @_;
foreach $key(sort keys %hash) {
    print "Stock number: $key\t"."Dividend: $hash{$key}\n";    
}    
}
$dividend=0.0378;

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Thanks for the help in advance!

In reply to dividend with recursive routine by derpp

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