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Bearing in mind that I'm a novice, what's your opinion of the following script that requests decimal input (<256) and gives binary output?:

#!/usr/bin/perl
#dectobin3.pl
use warnings;
use strict;

print "Enter a decimal number, less than 256, to be converted to a bin
+ary number: ";

chomp(my $dec = <STDIN>);

my $dec_a = $dec & 128;
my $dec_b = $dec & 64;
my $dec_c = $dec & 32;
my $dec_d = $dec & 16;
my $dec_e = $dec & 8;
my $dec_f = $dec & 4;
my $dec_g = $dec & 2;
my $dec_h = $dec & 1;

print "\n", $dec_a <=> 0, $dec_b <=> 0, $dec_c <=> 0, $dec_d <=> 0, $d
+ec_e <=> 0, $dec_f <=> 0, $dec_g <=> 0, $dec_h <=> 0, "\n";

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