#! /usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; #opening the file that i am reading from open TEST, 'test.txt' or die $!; #saving the file as a hash my %test = ; #looping through the hash and printing out all the words # i am going to eventualy have the person enter a sylable to look up rhyming words for (keys %test) { print "$_"; } # and then give the definition of the word that you type in print " Please Enter A Word "; my $choice = ; #the vaariable to check if the word is in the file my $word = 10; for (keys %test) { #if it is print out the definition (the hash value) if ($choice eq $_) { print $test{$_}; $word = 1; } } close TEST; #if it is not then say sorry word not found and ask them to retype it and a definition if ($word != 1) { open TEST, '>>test.txt' or die $!; print "Sorry Word Not Found\n"; print "Please Re-enter Word\n"; my $input = ; print "Please Enter Definition\n "; my $def = ; #append the word to the file print TEST "\n",$input; print TEST $def; }