I'm very new to perl, so go easy on me. I'm creating an author search program which prompts user for input. Then opens an input file, splits all the info into vars, and displays output generated based upon search.

Input file is similar to this:
Taliesin:Lawhead:Celtic Novel:8.99
History of the 20th Century:Sage:History:27.99
The Twilight of Courage:Thoene:Historical Novel:15.99

This is what I have so far: 
print "Author to search for:";
chomp($search = <STDIN>);
open (INPUT, "books.txt");
while (<INPUT>){
chomp $_;
($title, $author, $genre, $price) = split /:/,$_;
if ($search == $author) {
    $totalprice += $price;
    @info = ($title, $genre, $price);
    $found++;
    }
}
print "$found books by $author were found...\n";
print "They are:\n";
print "\tBook Title\t\t\tGenre\tPrice";
print @info;
print "\tTotal price of these books by $seach is $totalprice";
close INPUT;

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HELP????

In reply to Searching input file by psychoto

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