Hi all, hoping you won't mind helping me out with another beginners query... have been at it for hours and can't make it work. Have been asked to write a program which asks for a decimal number to convert to a binary one. The textbook hints that I "might want to use the bitwise and operator, 8 times". Whilst I have covered the & operator and thought I understood it, this is the first time I've had to use it and guess I'm not really getting it. Have started with the customary 
#!/usr/bin/perl
#converter.plx
use warnings;
use strict;
print "Please input a decimal no. to convert to binary : ";
chomp (my $value = <STDIN>);
print "$value .....

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Just not sure where to go after that, Many thanks

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