Hello, I am trying to prompt a user to enter a key, then use the input to display the value with that key. I can get key but unable to get the value. Here is my code: 
### create a hash
my %fruit_num = ( apple => 3,
                  bananas => 1,
                  oranges => 2,
                  );


### promp the user to enter a key
### use the input to display the value with that key.

print "Which fruit do you wish to query? ";
my $fruit = <STDIN>;
my $fruits = $fruit_num{$fruit};

chomp $fruit;

print "Number of" . $fruit . " is " .  $fruits . "\n";

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I know the problem is where I need to get the value, but I am not sure how to fix it. If any one can help me I would appreciate it. Thank you for your time. Randy

In reply to Hash from prompt by rshoe

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