CS 5984: Computation for the Life Sciences

Fall Semester, 2002
Programming Assignment 1

This programming assignment is worth 40 points.

You should email your Perl script to heath@vt.edu with subject "Programming Assignment 1" by 5:00PM on September 11, 2002. No late submission will be accepted.

Write and submit a Perl script named interact with the following interactive behavior.

1. Ask for the name of the person running the script and save it in a variable $name.

2. Ask for the date when the script is being run and save it in a variable $date.

3. Ask for the name of the computer where the script is being run and save it in a variable $computer.

4. Construct a variable $message that includes each of the three pieces of information above on a separate line.

5. Send an email to yourself (not me!) with subject the name of the script and body $message.

6. Print $message to the screen followed by "Goodbye" in your native language.

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