Perl Problem No. 1

[Harold Crouch <hcrouch@mchsi.com>]

Sayeth the Llama: Write a Perl script that prompts the user to enter
the radius of a circle, then calculates and prints the circumference.

Typith Harold

  #! /usr/bin/perl
  print "Enter the radius of the circle.\n";
  $radius = <STDIN>;
  print "The radius is $radius.\n";
  ...

But when I run the script and enter a value of 4, the output is

  The radius is 4
  .
  $

I looked at the solution in the back of the book, and the author's
output line is identical to mine.  Why is Perl moving the period to
the start of a new line?

- Harold

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