$name <-> $NAME do you see the difference? Perl does because it is case sensitive thus $name $Name and $NAME are all different.

Almost all Perl functions like chop if else print eq are lower case. Also \n represents a newline not \N. In short switch the CAPS LOCK OFF!

I presume you added all the <br> tags. You don't need to when posting code like this

<code>

#!usr/bin/perl
print "What is your name? ";
$name = <STDIN>;
chop($name);
if ($name eq "RANDAL") {
     print "HELLO, RANDAL! HOW GOOD OF YOU TO BE HERE!\n";
} else {
   print "HELLO, $name!\n"; #ORDINARY GREETING
}
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You do not see the real code tags because the are doing their job - maintaining all the formatting like <PRE> tags. Just type in the opening code tag, paste in your code and then type in the closing code tag. Have fun - it gets easier. Just remember computers are reather pedantic when it comes to what you feed them!

cheers

tachyon

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