I cant get the following code to cooperate: 

#!/bin/perl 
use v5.12;
use warnings;

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MY CODE: 

     my $Namelist  = 'Wilma Fred Barney Betty Dino'; 

       if ( $Namelist ~= m/\w+a/)  { 
          print "Matched|$<$&>$|\n"; 
          say "The name that matched was $1 \n";  
         }  else {  
          print "No match: \n";  
          }

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My error(s) 

 syntax error at ./exer_8_3 line 8, near "$Namelist ~" 
 syntax error at ./exer_8_3 line 11, near "}"

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TIA,
Catfish

2018-10-20 Athanasius added code and paragraph tags

In reply to Simple prog isnt cooperating by catfish1116

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