Ask the user for two numbers and divide the first by the second number.
Example 5-8. examples/scalars/divide.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; print "First number: "; my $x = <STDIN>; chomp $x; print "Second number: "; my $y = <STDIN>; chomp $y; my $z = $x / $y; print "The result is $z\n";
$ perl examples/divide.pl
First number: 27
Second number: 3
9
$ perl examples/divide.pl
First number: 27
Second number: 0
Illegal division by zero at examples/divide.pl line 9, <STDIN> line 2.
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