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Your code executes just fine for me; specifically I get:

user@localhost:~/sandbox$ perl script.pl Enter a name to print it's family name : Alis Alis is already there, and its family name is Williams user@localhost: +~/sandbox$

How are you attempting to interact with it?

On a side note, hashes are wonderful tools, but you are not using them to their greatest advantage. To quote a great man:

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. -- TimToady

Rather than what you've written, I would use code more like:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my %family_name = ( "Alis" => "Williams", "Sara" => "McAwesome", "Serena" => "Anderson", ); print "Enter a name to print it's family name : \n"; chomp(my $name= <STDIN>); if (exists $family_name{$name}) { print "$name is already there, and its family name is $family_name +{$name} "; } else { print "I don't know anyone by the name $name\n"; }

See exists for info on the exists function and perldata for info on what data types (including hashes) Perl has to offer.


In reply to Re: Comparing Hash's key to an <STDIN> and print it's corresponding value by kennethk
in thread Comparing Hash's key to an <STDIN> and print it's corresponding value by xxArwaxx

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