Re: I'm trying to get a numeric array

[Athanasius]

Hello, fatmac, and welcome to the Monastery!

As you’ve no doubt found, typing in test data from the console quickly becomes tedious when you’re developing a script. What you need is a way to input data from the script itself but using the same syntax you would use for reading from the console (or from a separate data file). In Perl, that way is provided by the DATA filehandle, which reads input from the bottom of the script file beginning immediately after a line consisting of the __DATA__ token. The following script (which incorporates much of the advice of Gangabass and philiprbrenan, above) illustrates the use of DATA:

#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $fh = \*DATA;    # For user input, change to: \*STDIN

print "\nMulti Gear Calculator\n\n";

print "Enter Wheelsize (inches): ";
my    $wheel = <$fh>;
print $wheel;
chomp $wheel;

print "Enter Chainwheel Teeth:   ";
my    $chwhs = <$fh>;
print $chwhs;
my    @chwhs = split /\s+/, $chwhs;

print "Enter Cog Teeth:          ";
my    $cogs  = <$fh>;
print $cogs;
my    @cogs  = split /\s+/, $cogs;

my    @gears;

for (0 .. 8)
{
    $gears[$_ +  1] = $wheel * $chwhs[0] / $cogs[$_];
    $gears[$_ + 10] = $wheel * $chwhs[1] / $cogs[$_];
    $gears[$_ + 19] = $wheel * $chwhs[2] / $cogs[$_];
}

print "\nYour gears are:\n\n";

print 'Wheelsize:   ',           $wheel,  "\n"; 
print 'Chainwheels: ', join(' ', @chwhs), "\n";
print 'Sprockets:   ', join(' ', @cogs),  "\n\n";

for (1 .. 27)
{
    printf "%6.2f ", $gears[$_];
    print  "\n\n" if $_ % 9 == 0;
}

__DATA__
26.5
42 32 22
11 13 15 17 19 21 24 28 32

When you’re finished testing, and want to use the script to input data from the console, simply change the line

my $fh = \*DATA;

to

my $fh = \*STDIN;

and you’re there!

Hope that helps,

[fatmac]

Thankyou very much for your reply Athanasius, that is very interesting, & I have made a note for future reference. I shall try that out in a copy of my program.