Hello, I'm beginning in perl and I'm having some trouble with a program. I need this program to be able to find a file that a user puts in (STDIN, I know) and then find the amount of times a word that they also choose in the file they have chosen... This is what I have so far, sorry if it's completely wrong.

I know it's a bit scattered but I've just been fiddling with it for hours trying to get it to work. 

 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

print "Please enter the name of the file to search:";
while (<>){
     print;
}

print "Enter a word to search for:";
chomp( my $input = <STDIN>;

my $ctr=0;
foreach($filename){
     if (/\b$input\b/){
          $ctr++;
     }
}
print "Frequency: $ctr\n";

exit;

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