2009/11/13 Subhashini <subhashinibasavar...@gmail.com>: > > This is the code that i have written > > > #!/usr/bin/perl > print "ENTER THE WORD IN ENGLISH"; > print "\n"; > $english=<STDIN>; > print "word ====="; > print "$english"; > print "\n"; > print "*********************************** FRENCH -TO - ENGLISH - > TRANSLATION ************************************************"; > system ("dict -d fd-eng-fra $english"); > > ~ > > The output i get is as follows: > > subhash...@bhaskara:~$ perl english.pl > ENTER THE WORD IN ENGLISH > potato > word =====potato > > *********************************** FRENCH -TO - ENGLISH - TRANSLATION > ************************************************1 definition found > > From English-French Freedict dictionary [fd-eng-fra]: > > potato [pɔteitou] > pomme de terre > > subhash...@bhaskara:~$
First off thank you John for pointing that my mistake with chomp(). I don't what else I can do for you here Subhashini. Your code doesn't show any of the modification I have suggested and you have removed the redirection operator! Dp. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/