Can someone with a unix box check this perl script for me, please?

[Gigantopithecus]

Sorry, I'm a biologist trying to learn how to program perl and this is my first baby step, and for some reason my friend's unix box won't let me log on.

Here's the script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "How many moles of solute do you have?\n";
$moles=<STDIN>;
print "How many liters of solution do you have?\n";
$solution=<STDIN>;
$totalmolarity=$moles/$solution;
print "The molarity of your solution is $totalmolarity\n";

All it should do is calculate the molarity of a solution given x moles of solute & y liters of solution.

 

[Cheetah8799]

You can install Active Perl on a Windows machine.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Perl

edit: Pretty sure you can then setup your PATH environment variable in Windows so that you can run your script from the command line just like in a *nix environment.

 

[notfred]

This is a better link

And I haven't run your script, but it will run fine.

 

[Armitage]

Works for me on Linux