When I was a kid in the early 80s, computers were very new to have around. \u00a0To make them more appealing to the home market – where they were suddenly available and even affordable – computers were given programs that allowed them to interact with the user. \u00a0You’d see such situations as this:<\/p>\n
Computer screen<\/em>: \u00a0Hello! \u00a0What’s your name?<\/span><\/p>\n The user would type in:<\/em> Gerald<\/span><\/p>\n Now the computer would reply:<\/em><\/p>\n Hello, Gerald! I’m so glad to meet you!<\/span><\/p>\n How did our predecessors manage that feat – and how can we do the same?<\/p>\n In Perl, you can do the following:<\/p>\n #!\/usr\/bin\/perl <STDIN><\/span> means for the computer to gather input from the standard source; ie, the console.<\/p>\n Chop<\/span> removes the newline (the ENTER stroke) Gerald pressed to “enter” his name.<\/p>\n Part of tutoring is continuing traditions:)<\/p>\n Source<\/em>: Robert’s Perl Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n
\nprint “Hello. What is your name?\\n\\n”;
\n$usrname=<STDIN>;
\nchop $usrname;
\nprint “\\nHello, $usrname! I’m so glad to meet you!”;
\n<\/span><\/p>\n