i want that program should ask the user on the command line to enter name and number n to print its corresponding letter, isn't it that i think about question ?
And I want a pony. But nobody on this website is going to give me one. Does that seem unfair?

In order to achieve your desired result, you need to break it down to basic steps that are easily programmable - this will be your algorithm. In this case, I would:

  1. Obtain a name from the user, via STDIN (I/O Operators)
  2. Obtain an index from the user, via STDIN
  3. Use substr to obtain the n-th letter of the name
  4. print that character to STDOUT

If you follow the extensive assistance you received in how to create a perl program using filehandle and streams ?, you should be able to achieve 1. and 2.

This site is full of people who are patient, friendly and generous with their valuable time - time that is more valuable than yours in a very literal way. Your apparent lack of effort is rapidly burning bridges here. I caution you to consider this before posting again. How do I post a question effectively?.

In reply to Re^3: New to perl by kennethk
in thread New to perl by Monk_perl

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