I'm trying to write a simple, useless program that basically what it does is opens a text file which has a list of names. It asks you for your name - if it finds the name, it quits. If not, it asks you if you want to add your name, then.. well. It adds it and quits. Yay. Well.. The thing is, the search absolutely does not work, it NEVER finds the name. I know I'm missing something here. Here's the code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
open (FILE, "users.txt") or die "File not found\n";
my $name = '';
my $yn = '';

print "Enter your name--> ";
chomp ($name = <STDIN>);

while (<FILE>) {

   if (/^\$name$/i) {
      print "Your name was already found\n";
      last; }
   else {
      print "Name not found. Would you like to add it? (y/n)--> ";
      chomp ($yn = <STDIN>);
      if ($yn eq 'y') {
         close FILE;
         open (OUTPUT, ">>users.txt");
         print OUTPUT "$name\n";
         close OUTPUT; ;
      }
      else {
         print "FINE!\n"; ;
      }
last;    } 
}
print "end.\n";

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