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in thread Beginner's help

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";


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>

It worked great! Thanks for everyone's help!

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Re^3: Beginner's help
by toolic (Bishop) on Feb 20, 2008 at 03:17 UTC
    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.