Hello so, I am very new to perl, I need to take the post data from a quiz and compare it against an array containing the correct answers. Now the answer key is to be generated from a text file, that goes like the following:
1. question?
*a. answer
b. answer
c. answer
the * means the correct answer, so I need to take very line in the file starting with a * to create the answer key. then I need to compare the post data (results from the user's quiz against the answer key I generate. my problem appears to be generating the answer key from the file. so far I have tried this:

my @answers = ();
open(my $file, "quiz4.txt");
while (my $line = <$file>)
{
    if ($line =~ /\A\*/)
    {
        $line = substr($line, 1);
        $answer = substr($line,0);
        push(@answers, $answer);
    }
}
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I am attempting to find the line starting with *, then add it to an array called answers. then I hope to get the following to work to do a basic correct or wrong check:

for ($i=0; $i<=9; $i++)

{

    $thisname = $name[$i];

    if (exists $formHash{$thisname})

    {

        if ($formHash{$thisname} eq $answer[$i])

        {

            print "Correct answer";
        }

        else

        {

            print "incorrect answer";

        }
    }
}
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Any help, guidance, or advice is greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance!

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