#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; open(LANGUAGES,"languages.txt") or die "cannot open languages.txt"; my $line; my %hash; foreach $line () { my ($language, $author) = split ', ', $line; $hash{$language} = $author; } my $lang; print "Enter a programming language: "; chomp ($lang = ); if (exists $hash{$lang}) { print "$lang was originally developed by $hash{$lang}.\n"; } else { warn "Language not found!"; }