in reply to Formatting in Perl

davido is right in all respects, though I would handle the plural a little differently (for clarity, I think): 
 chomp $number_of_days;  # assuming this came from <STDIN>

 my $plural = ( $number_of_days == 1 ) ? '' : 's';
 print "\[$number_of_days\] day$plural = \[$number_of_sec\] seconds.\n
+";

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Re^2: Formatting in Perl
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Oct 01, 2004 at 03:34 UTC

    You don't need to escape the [ ]. If you want to use a name for the plural suffix $s is quite readable and self documenting :-) 

    print "[$days] day$s = [$secs] seconds.\n";

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