#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; @ARGV > 0 or die "Insufficient arguments: Need word file, and Dict file names"; my ($wordfile, $dictfile) = @ARGV; open my $d, "<", $dictfile or die "Cannot open $dictfile: $!"; open my $w, "<", $wordfile or die "Cannot open $wordfile: $!"; my %dict = map {split /\s/,$_,2} <$d>; close $d; while (defined (my $line=<$w>)){ for (split /\s/,$line){ if (my $meaning = $dict{$_}){ print "$_: $meaning\n"; next; } print "$_ is not in the dictionary\n"; } } close $w;