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--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Strolling thru' Learning Perl and already have a few q's in mind:
>
> I couldn't quite follow this program off the book. The parts not
> quite
> clear to me are (the hwole program is given below):
>
> $i = 0;
> $correct = "maybe"; {
> while ($correct eq "maybe")
> {
> if ($words[$i] eq $guess){
> $correct = "yes";
> }
> elsif ($i < 2) {
> $i = $i + 1;
> Anyone would like to help?
>
>
> ----------------------the whole program-----------------------
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> @words = qw (llama camel alpaca);
> print "what is your name\n";
> $name = <stdin>;
> chomp $name;
> if ($name eq "tan") {
> print "hey man\n";
> }
> else
> {
> print "hi, $name\n";
> print "enter the password\n";
> $guess = <stdin>;
> chomp $guess;
> $i = 0;
> $correct = "maybe"; {
> while ($correct eq "maybe")
> {
> if ($words[$i] eq $guess){
> $correct = "yes";
> }
> elsif ($i < 2) {
> $i = $i + 1;
> }
> else
> {
> print "wrong. try again\n";
> $guess = <stdin>;
> chomp $guess;
> $i = 0;
> }
> }
> }}
> #EOF.
>
>
>
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