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printing a variable goes to next line

jazzo
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Aug 6, 2012, 9:58 AM

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printing a variable goes to next line	Can't Post

Hi there, I wonder if you can help me with this. Here's my script:

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#!/usr/bin/perl 
#money_user_input.plx 
use strict; 
use warnings; 
print "Enter a value here\n"; 
my $money = <STDIN>; 
print "I have Ł$money in my account\n";

Whenever I run this script in the terminal I have this output:

antobbo@antobbo-xps17-ubuntu:~/begperl$ perl money_user_input.plx
Enter a value here
3466
I have Ł3466
in my account

Now why does "in my account" go onto the following line? I didn't include any

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\n

, just at the end. What is it that I am doing wrong please?
thanks

Laurent_R
Enthusiast

Aug 6, 2012, 10:39 AM

Post #2 of 7 (941 views)

Re: [jazzo] printing a variable goes to next line [In reply to]	Can't Post

Do this:

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my $money = <STDIN>;  
chomp $money; 
print "I have Ł$money in my account\n";

The chomp function will remove the carriage return that you inserted at the end of the $money variable when you hit enter the value.

jazzo
Novice

Aug 6, 2012, 11:01 AM

Post #3 of 7 (940 views)

Re: [Laurent_R] printing a variable goes to next line [In reply to]	Can't Post

fantastic thanks, it works.
One question though: if chomp is a function shouldn't the variable be a parameter of the function like

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chomp ($money);

?
thanks

Laurent_R
Enthusiast

Aug 6, 2012, 1:59 PM

Post #4 of 7 (928 views)

Re: [jazzo] printing a variable goes to next line [In reply to]	Can't Post

If you write:

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chomp $money;

you are really saying that $money is the parameter to the chomp fonction.

You can put it in parens, but this is not required.

jazzo
Novice

Aug 6, 2012, 2:25 PM

Post #5 of 7 (925 views)

Re: [Laurent_R] printing a variable goes to next line [In reply to]	Can't Post

ok fantastic, thanks, it's that I wasn't sure what was the right syntax, I just want to make sure I learn the basics correctly. In javascript and I remember when I looked into c++ all the functions have brackets () so I assume I had to use them here too. I haven't got yet to functions in perl, so hopefully the brackets usage will become clear then
thanks

Laurent_R
Enthusiast

Aug 6, 2012, 11:12 PM

Post #6 of 7 (912 views)

Re: [jazzo] printing a variable goes to next line [In reply to]	Can't Post

In Perl, most internal functions don't require parentheses. But you can put some if you wish or if you want to get the right precedence.

you can say:

print reverse sort keys %hash;

or

print (reverse (sort ( keys (%hash))));

jazzo
Novice

Aug 7, 2012, 10:47 AM

Post #7 of 7 (905 views)

Re: [Laurent_R] printing a variable goes to next line [In reply to]	Can't Post

fantastic thanks

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