My 2 cents: You need to make all your statements lowercase (i.e. CHOP, IF, PRINT, ELSE). You need to know $name is different from $NAME, so the program will not even recognize $NAME. \N needs to be \n. Case is very important in perl! I'm not even sure what \N does. Other than that, you can enable warnings by making the #!/usr/bin/perl line #!/usr/bin/perl -w. That will show you your errors. Someone else suggested using chomp, so i'll put it in there too. Keep hacking away! 
#!usr/bin/perl -w

print "What is your name? ";
$name = <STDIN>;
chomp($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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In reply to Re: Re: Re: I need some beginners help by mexnix
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