Hi
redqueentheory.
Welcome to PM.
Perhaps a minor point but I'd rewrite your code as:
use warnings;
use strict;
my $value = 0;
my $from = '';
my $to = '';
my $prefix = '';
my %prefixes = ();
%prefixes = (
mega => 6,
kilo => 3,
milli => -3,
micro => -6,
nano => -9,
pico => -12,
femto => -15,
atto => -18,
zepto => -21,
yocto => -24,
);
print "Enter the unit that you are starting with: ";
chomp( $from = <STDIN> );
print "Enter your target unit: ";
chomp( $to = <STDIN> );
print "Enter the numerical amount: ";
chomp( $value = <STDIN> );
if ( not exists $prefixes{$from} ) {
die qq/I don't know about the prefix $from\n/;
}
if ( not exists $prefixes{$to} ) {
die qq/I don't know about the prefix $to\n/;
}
$prefix = $prefixes{$from} - $prefixes{$to};
print "$value $from is ", $value * (10**$prefix), " $to. \n";
#Output:
C:\perl pm_test.pl
Enter the unit that you are starting with: mega
Enter your target unit: kilo
Enter the numerical amount: 10
10 mega is 10000 kilo.
Hope this helps,
~Katie