You need to chomp your input.

When the user types "Word1" and then hits <ENTER>, that <ENTER> gets included in the input string as a "newline" ("\n"). So the input string looks like "Word1\n". There is no hash key named "Word1\n", only "Word1".

Or to put it another way, "Word1\n" and "Word1" would be two different keys.

This will work as you seem to intend:

while(<STDIN>) {
    chomp $_;  # Remove the trailing newline from the contents of $_.
    my $name = $_;
    print "$p{$name}\n";
}

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Dave

In reply to Re: Wrong hash accessing? by davido
in thread Wrong hash accessing? by Firsov

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