I am updating it now and I will post here aswell with the new code. The text file says this exactly Hamburger - 1.79 Cheeseburger - 2.00 Fries - 1.50

I took a different approach and had perl read the file print what it said then take that and put it into a hash now I need to take user input and change the hash. My guess would be to use a foreach loop to run through each line of the uploaded hash and change it.

use strict;
use warnings;

my $file = 'gp1data.txt';
open my $info, $file || die "Could not open $file: $!";

while( my $line = <$info>) {
    chomp($line);
    print $line;
    (my $word1, my $word2) = split /-/, $line;
    $hash{word1} = $word2;
}
while ( my ($k, $v) = each $hash){
    print "key $k => $v\n";
}
<>;

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In reply to Re^2: Hashes and Associative Arrays by phizymonk
in thread Hashes and Associative Arrays by phizymonk

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