in reply to Beginner's help

Surround your code with "code" tags.

Add these lines to the top of your script, then declare all variables with my: 

use warnings;
use strict;

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This will help you avoid common Perl coding mistakes.

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Re^2: Beginner's help
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 20, 2008 at 02:36 UTC
    Thanks for the help, the book I am using to learn pearl said chomp removed new lines, but I didn't realize that it added newlines to all of my <STDIN> tags.
    I apologize for the formatting, I was getting frustrated with my code and didn't take the time to look up proper formatting in perlmonks, so thanks for the link!
    This is what I now have: 
    #!/usr/bin/env perl
print "Please enter your first name:";
chomp ($FIRST = <STDIN>);

print "Please enter your last name:";
chomp ($LAST = <STDIN>);

print "Please enter a temperature in Farenheit:";
chomp ($F = <STDIN>);

chomp ($C = (($F - 32) * 5) / 9);

print "Thank You $FIRST $LAST, $F degrees Farenheit is $C degrees Cels
+ius.\n";

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    And this is what I got: 
    nova> perl project1.pl
Please enter your first name:neg
Please enter your last name:zero
Please enter a temperature in Farenheit:90
Thank You neg zero, 90 degrees Farenheit is 32.2222222222222 degrees C
+elsius.
nova>

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    It worked great! Thanks for everyone's help!
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      The chomp in your calculation of $C should not be necessary.

      You can use sprintf to control the number of decimal places displayed for $C.

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