I believe that you want to print either the contents of the file or an error message depending on the word that the user enters. For a small file, you can slurp it into a string and search it with a regular expression. 
C:\Users\Bill\forums\monks>type gopikavi.pl
use strict;
use warnings;
open my $F, '<', 'file.txt' or die $!;
my $text = do{ local $/ = undef; <$F> };
print 'Enter the name: ';
chomp( my $name = <> );
if ($text !~/\b$name\b/){
    die "Word '$name' is not in file 'file.txt'\n";
}
print $text;

C:\Users\Bill\forums\monks>perl gopikavi.pl
Enter the name: data1
data1
data2
data3
data4

C:\Users\Bill\forums\monks>perl gopikavi.pl
Enter the name: data5
Word 'data5' is not in file 'file.txt'

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In reply to Re: How to read the file from stdin using perl? by BillKSmith
in thread How to read the file from stdin using perl? by gopikavi

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