I am trying to work with English and Dari - starting with a simple 1-1 translation.

It goes from English to Dari ok (except everything is printed backwards, L->R), but nothing is printed when Dari is input. Part of the problem is the backwards issue, w/Dari in STDIN (& STDOUT) it comes out L->R - I don't know how to address this so it will match the keys in %dari2english

(ex: خداوند بود خردمند should be translated as "God was wise" but nothing is printed; When going from E->D God was wise, you get the right words in the right order, but with the letters in the words going L->R (I can't replicate it here))

Thanks for any help. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use utf8;
binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";

%english2dari = (
  "wise" => "خردمند",
  "was" => "بود",
  "God" => "خداوند");

%dari2english = reverse %english2dari;

do{ print "Give a sentence in Dari or English:\n";
 chomp ($line = <>);

 if ($line =~ /\w/){
  $line =~ s/^\s*//;
  $line =~ s/\s*$//;
  @words = split /\s+/, $line;

  @words = reverse @words; 
  #word order R-> L but problem remains w/letters L->R

  foreach $word(@words){
   if (exists ($english2dari{$word})){
    $dariword = reverse $english2dari{$word} =~ m/\X/g;    
   #should (dnw)reverse how Dari words print, so it's R->L

    print " $dariword " ;
   } elsif (exists ($dari2english{$word})) {
    print " $word ";
    #this doesn't seem to work at all
   } else {
    print " $word "; #unknown - doesn't work either
   }
  } 
 } print "\n";
}

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In my system, %english2dari displays the characters correctly:

"wise" => "خردمند", "was" => "بود", "God" => "خداوند",

In reply to reversed hash doesn't identify keys by holly_71

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