I got this question during perl test.

Write a program that accepts a number of ASCII values between 40 and 125 (both inclusive) and concatenates the corresponding characters to form a string. The program accepts a multi-line input. The first line contains a number representing how many ASCII values are in the input. The subsequent lines contain the ASCII values themselves (one ASCII value per line).

The following is an example of a valid input:

INPUT ------ 5 (this indicates the total number of ASCII values in the input set)

65

67

69

70

71

I have some other solution to this question. But i am very much confusing how to read multi line input in which the first line consider as number of times and subsequent lines contains ASCII values. I know my solutions is not correct, please help me in this regard. 

#!/usr/bin/perl print "Enter the number of times : "; $times=<STDIN>; 
+@ascii=<STDIN>;
foreach $s (@ascill) { print chr($s); }

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I know the above solution is not suitable what question is asked above.

Thanks.

In reply to Problem with reading multi-line by sarshads

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