I need help with my program, I had everything working but then when I went back to try it out my second if statement was failing every time.

Anyone know what to do instead?

If statement

print "Enter a word to search for:";
chomp (my $word = <STDIN> );
if (not -e $word){
        print "No such word found.\n";
        exit;
}

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PROGRAM

#!/usr/bin/perl -w


use strict;


print "Welcome to the word frequency calculator.\n";
print "This program prompts the user for a file to open, \n";
print "then it prompts for a word to search for in that file,\n";
print "finally the frequency of the word is displayed.\n";
print " \n";


print "Please enter the name of the file to search:";
chomp (my $filename = <STDIN> );
if (not -e $filename){
        print "No such file exists. Exiting program. Please try again.
+\n";
        exit;
}


print "Enter a word to search for:";
chomp (my $word = <STDIN> );
if (not -e $word){
        print "No such word found.\n";
        exit;
}


print "Frequency of word: " . grep $word eq $_,
split /\W+/i, do { local (@ARGV, $/)= $filename; <> };


exit;

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Thanks!

In reply to Need help with an if statement by distro

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