use strict;
use warnings;

#^^ for personal use to see where I've messed up



open (FH,$ARGV[0]) || print "could not open file" ;
my $info = <FH>;

# ^^This opens whatever file is associates with the program
 #                    i.e - perl thisassignment documenthechooses
# that file is placed into $info after it's read

while ($info=~ /(\w+ (-?\d+ )+)/)
{
        my $info =~ s/(\w+ (-?\d+ )+)//;
}


# Identifies the pattern in file. Identifies one or more words (\w+), 
+one or more #numbers(\d+),, also searches for new lines (-?) . my pro
+fessor gave us this #pattern code so I might be totally wrong. I'm no
+t very good with pattern yet..


my @nums = split(/:/,$info);

#takes out colon where ever it may be in the $info scalar, @nums is a 
+array with #those values 

my $word = shift (@nums);

# shifts first word 

my $sum = 0;

# $sum is a empty scalar 

my $var = ($info);

# i think $var is supposed to contain the numbers from $info 


foreach $var (@nums)
{
    $sum = $sum + $var;
}

#this is to add the numbers together. Sum is empty, so with every new 
+number #that occurs it goes into sum and adds to whatever number is i
+n var. i hope I'm #explaining that right.

my %hash = ($word => $sum);

#the new sum goes into the hash as a key and the color is in the list,
+ thats how #they associate with each other..  


print @nums;
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Now that I've evaluated the code myself it is definitely missing things.. I just don't know how to build this kind of stuff. I'm such a novice that I had a hard time imagining how to put the pieces together.