My output seems to be coming out in reverse order of how it is programmed. Can anyone tell me why? Also, when run it says scalar value @binary1 better written as $binary1, what does that mean? I am running a piece of code which shows output: Program ended successfully In binary, that is 11111111 The code is: 
#!C:\Perl\
use warnings;
use strict;
#binary.plx

print"Please enter an integer less than or equal to 256: ";
our $decimal = <STDIN>;
our @binary = ("0","1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8");
our $x = 0;
print"Checkpoint1\n";

   if ($decimal == "256")
      {
          print "In binary, that is ";
              while ($x < 8) 
                  {
                      @binary[$x]=1;
                      print @binary[$x];
                      $x++; 
                  }
          die"\n\nProgram ended successfully";
      } 

   elsif ($decimal < "256")

      {
          @binary[0] = 0;
      }
 
   # Nothing more needs to be done here.
   elsif ($decimal >"256")
      {
          die"\nYou entered an invalid number!\n\n";
      }

$decimal-=128;
print"\ndecimal is ",$decimal;

   
      
   if ($decimal < "128")
      {
          @binary[1] = 0;
          print"\nThe second digit ",@binary[1];
      }

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In reply to a newbie's output reversed by saintj0n

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