Hi all... I'm new to perlmonk. But want to ask a question. I'm currently learning the basics of perl(very basic) So an idea came to my mind and i started working on it and created a small code snippet. My code is...

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Enter a number\n";
chomp($a=<stdin>);
print "Enter second number\n";
chomp($b=<stdin>);
print "Enter third number\n";
chomp($c=<stdin>);
$big=0;
$equal=0;
if($a eq $b){
$big = $a;
$equal = $a;
}
elsif($a > $b){
$big=$a;
}
else{
$big = $b;
}
if($equal eq $c){
print "All numbers are same";
}
elsif($big < $c){
$big = $c;
}
else{
print "The biggest number is $big \n";
}

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This is what I am thinking about my code: First it takes three numbers as input as A, B, C. Then A and B are compared and the biggest output is written to a scalar variable $big If A and B are the same numbers it is written to both $big and $equal Then $big and $c are compared. $equal and $c are also compared. If $equal and $c are same then then a message should print that all numbers are same. The biggest number in $big and $c should be printed. So, everything looks fine in the code to me.But when I enter 3,4,5 to A,B and C no output is shown in the terminal. Consecutive numbers are not outputting anything. Can anyone could help me out?

In reply to Find the biggest number from three numbers by shrsv

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