[prog] Little Perl Question

[Malke Routh]

On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 06:40, Susan Peterson wrote:
> Use a an if to test if the number1 > number2, does that make sense, 
> and increment number1 inside the if statement. 
> Susan
> 
> 
> 
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> [mailto:programming-admin at linuxchix.org]On Behalf Of Malke Routh
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> 
> Hi - I'm teaching myself Perl (my first programming language!), so am a
> rank beginner. I'm writing a little Perl program based on the math quiz
> in "Elements of Programming with Perl".  Basically, my quiz runs through
> simple addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division using random
> numbers from 0-12 inclusive.  I've done alright with addition and
> multiplication, but in subtraction, I don't want negative numbers.  If
> I'm doing something like:
> 
> $first_number - $second_number
> 
> how do I specify that the first number always has to be bigger than the
> second number?

Thanks, Susan.  That did it.  I appreciate the help.

Cheers,

Malke
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