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husoft has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I saw an exercise in the book 'Learn Perl in 21 days':
-------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/perl print ("Enter the distance to be converted:\n"); $originaldist = <STDIN>; chop ($originaldist); $miles = $originaldist * 0.6214; $kilometers = $originaldist * 1.609; print ($originaldist, " kilometers = ", $miles, " miles\n"); print ($originaldist, " miles = ", $kilometers, " kilometers\n"); --------------------------------------------------------
And wanted to make it shorter...
-------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/perl print "Enter the distance to be converted:\n"; chomp($_=<>);print"$_ kilometers= ".$_*0.6214." miles\n$_ miles= ".$_*1.609." kilometers\n"; --------------------------------------------------------
Is there a posible way to make it even SHORTER?!