CIS 2279 Homework Assignment #08

CIS 2279 Homework Assignment #08

Due Sun, Oct 26, 2008

All files created must be saved in your class directory /mnt/homes/CLASSES/CIS2279/<username>

Create a perl script named lab08.pl in your user directory. The script that has the following features:
1. Prompt the user to enter their full name (on one line)
2. Capitalize the entered first and last name and store in separate variables.
3. Create a subroutine that returns a lower case string comprised of the entered last name and first initial as a single word (ie. "Mark Tucker" would be returned as "tuckerm") when passed the first and last name as arguments. Print this returned value to the screen.
4. Prompt the user to enter the current month.
5. Store in a variable the current month as the first three characters of the entered month converted to upper case.
6. Prompt the user to enter the current day of the week.
7. Convert the day of the week to all lower case.
8. Print the month variable, the weekday and the userbname to the screen with some descriptive text using one print statement.

answer (one of many)

last updated: 21 Oct 2008 21:36