#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;
print "Enter the target word: ";
chomp(my $target = <STDIN>);
my $in_file = 'words.txt';
open(my $in, '<', $in_file) or die "Cannot open file '$in_file' for re
+ading: $!";
my @matches;
while (<$in>)
{
chomp;
push @matches, $_ if $target =~ /$_/i;
}
close $in or die "Cannot close file '$in_file': $!";
@matches = sort { length $a <=> length $b } @matches;
print "The closest match is: ", $matches[-1], "\n";
If the file “words.txt” contains:
fal
falle
fall
then, when “fallen” is entered from the keyboard, the output of the above script is:
2:31 >perl 454_SoPW.pl
Enter the target word: fallen
The closest match is: falle
2:31 >
Hope that helps,
Update: Fixed error in sort: changed > to <=>. Also changed the order of words in the input file.
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