Perl Programming/Exercise 1
< Perl ProgrammingA. Getting started, displaying text
Task: Create a Perl program which displays "Hello world" and then exits.
# !/usr/bin/perl
#helloWorld.pl
#Program to display "Hello world"
print "Hello world";
#End of program.
B. Displaying numbers
i) Put the number 4000/7 into a variable, and display it on screen.
ii) Adapt the program to display the number to 3 decimal places. (Hint: This is possible using integer math before the final calculation.)
iii) Adapt the program to round up if the last decimal place is greater than 5
iv) Adapt the program to display the number with leading zeros
v) Adapt the program to show a + sign if the number is positive, and check that it correctly displays a - sign if you subtract 1000 from the number.
#!/user/bin/perl
#displayNumberOnScreen.pl
$divisionResult = 4000/7;
print "Result of 4000 divided by 7 is $divisionResult";
C. Functions
Write a function to calculate the roots of a Quadratic equation, where you give the coefficients a,b,c to the function, and it returns both the values of x
D. Putting it all together
Put together these programs into one which:
- Displays a title on screen
- Creates 3 random numbers (a,b,c)
- Displays those numbers neatly formatted
- Uses those numbers as the coefficients of a quadratic equation, calculates and displays both roots.