Gangabass has correctly identified your failure to split the second input string (chwhs); you need to do likewise with the third (cogs).

But you also have to correct your calculations section to deal with the division by zero problem: you have nine tooth-counts (elements) in @chwhs but, as written, you use only three, $chwhs[0], $chwhs[1] and $chwhs[2] while attempting to use 9 elements of @cogs which has only three elements, 42, 32 and 22.

Without too much diddling your code, you can fix that problem, thusly:

#!/usr/bin/perl use 5.014; # 9913950mod print "\nMulti Gear Calculator\n\n"; print "\ Enter Wheelsize (inches): "; my $wheel = <STDIN>; chomp $wheel; print "\n Enter nine numeric values for Chainwheel Teeth: "; # 11 13 1 +5 17 19 21 24 28 32 my $chwhs = <STDIN>; chomp $chwhs; my @chwhs = split (/\s+/, $chwhs); chomp @chwhs; print "\n Enter three numeric values for Cog Teeth: "; # 42 33 22 my $cogs = <STDIN>; chomp $cogs; say "\t $cogs \n\n"; # DEMO: SEE co +mment in output my @cogwheels = split (/\s+/, $cogs); chomp @cogwheels; my $gear1 = $wheel * $chwhs[0]/$cogwheels[0]; my $gear2 = $wheel * $chwhs[1]/$cogwheels[0]; my $gear3 = $wheel * $chwhs[2]/$cogwheels[0]; my $gear4 = $wheel * $chwhs[3]/$cogwheels[0]; my $gear5 = $wheel * $chwhs[4]/$cogwheels[0]; my $gear6 = $wheel * $chwhs[5]/$cogwheels[0]; my $gear7 = $wheel * $chwhs[6]/$cogwheels[0]; my $gear8 = $wheel * $chwhs[7]/$cogwheels[0]; my $gear9 = $wheel * $chwhs[8]/$cogwheels[0]; my $gear10 = $wheel * $chwhs[0]/$cogwheels[1]; my $gear11 = $wheel * $chwhs[1]/$cogwheels[1]; my $gear12 = $wheel * $chwhs[2]/$cogwheels[1]; my $gear13 = $wheel * $chwhs[3]/$cogwheels[1]; my $gear14 = $wheel * $chwhs[5]/$cogwheels[1]; my $gear15 = $wheel * $chwhs[4]/$cogwheels[1]; my $gear16 = $wheel * $chwhs[5]/$cogwheels[1]; my $gear17 = $wheel * $chwhs[6]/$cogwheels[1]; my $gear18 = $wheel * $chwhs[7]/$cogwheels[1]; my $gear19 = $wheel * $chwhs[0]/$cogwheels[2]; my $gear20 = $wheel * $chwhs[1]/$cogwheels[2]; my $gear21 = $wheel * $chwhs[2]/$cogwheels[2]; my $gear22 = $wheel * $chwhs[3]/$cogwheels[2]; my $gear23 = $wheel * $chwhs[4]/$cogwheels[2]; my $gear24 = $wheel * $chwhs[5]/$cogwheels[2]; my $gear25 = $wheel * $chwhs[6]/$cogwheels[2]; my $gear26 = $wheel * $chwhs[7]/$cogwheels[2]; my $gear27 = $wheel * $chwhs[8]/$cogwheels[2]; my @gear1 = ($gear1, $gear2, $gear3, $gear4, $gear5, $gear6, $gear7, $ +gear8, $gear9); my @gear2 = ($gear10, $gear11, $gear12, $gear13, $gear14, $gear15, $ge +ar16, $gear17, $gear18); my @gear3 = ($gear19, $gear20, $gear21, $gear22, $gear23, $gear24, $ge +ar25, $gear26, $gear27); my $rounded; # re-used throughout the output funcs below print "\n Your gear ratios are: \n"; print "\n Sprocket 1: "; for (@gear1) { $rounded = sprintf("%.3f", $_); print $rounded . " | "; } print "\n Sprocket 2: "; for (@gear2) { $rounded = sprintf("%.3f", $_); print $rounded . " | "; } print "\n Sprocket 3: "; for (@gear3) { $rounded = sprintf("%.3f", $_); print $rounded . " | "; } print "\nWheelsize: $wheel \n"; print "Chainwheels: @chwhs \n"; print "Cogteeth: @cogwheels \n\n"; =head execution (annotate): C:\>991395OPmod.pl Multi Gear Calculator Enter Wheelsize (inches): 26.5 Enter nine numeric values for Chainwheel Teeth: 11 13 15 17 19 21 24 +28 32 Enter three numeric values for Cog Teeth: 42 32 22 42 32 22 # Perl sees the three values from <STDIN> as a SING +LE, non-numeric string # that's why we need to split them, to get three nu +meric values Your gear ratios are: Sprocket 1: 6.940 | 8.202 | 9.464 | 10.726 | 11.988 | 13.250 | 15.143 + | 17.667 | 20.190 | Sprocket 2: 9.109 | 10.766 | 12.422 | 14.078 | 17.391 | 15.734 | 17.3 +91 | 19.875 | 23.188 | Sprocket 3: 13.250 | 15.659 | 18.068 | 20.477 | 22.886 | 25.295 | 28. +909 | 33.727 | 38.545 | Wheelsize: 26.5 Chainwheels: 11 13 15 17 19 21 24 28 32 Cogteeth: 42 32 22 =cut

philiprbrenan incorporates that necessity, but -- unfortunately for the clarity of his example -- ...

  1. employs syntax which seems to me far to advanced for easy comprehension by a "total newbie to perl ...(who's) reading Learning Perl "
  2. uses a wheel size of "2100" which is 175 feet (assuming English measure; if it's millimeters, 82.67717 inches or a tad under 7 feet... which is still, IMO, a bit too large)
  3. reverses the tooth-count names (in effect, putting 8 different sprockets at the pedals and only 3 at the rear (which defies conventional design)

Modifying his code to use your data and design,

#!/usr/bin/perl use 5.014; use warnings FATAL => qw(all); use strict; use Data::Dump qw(dump pp); # 9913950PB my $wheel = 26.5; my @chwhs = qw (11 13 15 17 19 21 24 28 32); # test data my @cogs = qw (42 32 22); # test data my $gear; for my $c(0..8) { $gear->[$c][$_] = $wheel * $chwhs[$c]/$cogs[$_] for 0..2; } pp($gear);

one obtains output -- formatted differently -- but similar to the above:

[ [6.94047619047619, 9.109375, 13.25], [8.20238095238095, 10.765625, 15.6590909090909] [9.46428571428571, 12.421875, 18.0681818181818] [10.7261904761905, 14.078125, 20.4772727272727] [11.9880952380952, 15.734375, 22.8863636363636] [13.25, 17.390625, 25.2954545454545], [15.1428571428571, 19.875, 28.9090909090909], [17.6666666666667, 23.1875, 33.7272727272727], [20.1904761904762, 26.5, 38.5454545454545], ]

update: Note, however, that philiprbrenan's code DOES exhibit the virtue of succinctness while Athanasius' use of a data section and the easy mod from  my $fh = \*DATA; to  my $fh = \*STDIN; has great merit -- especially for a newcomer who may have to interate test runs, ad nauseum.

and... interspersed updates to fix my formatting in this overlong observation... BUT, I'm still not sure why the ratio values are interspersed rather than sequential across their entire span from gear1 to gear27.


In reply to Re: I'm trying to get a numeric array by ww
in thread I'm trying to get a numeric array by fatmac

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