Hi, Im hopeless at perl and desperately need some help. I need my program to take two arguments at execution. It needs to open the file named as the second argument, read it line by line splitting the each line at the colon and checking the left hand side of the split for any instances of the first argument. If it finds it, it prints it out. This is what ive got so far: (the name of the file it checks through is called groupinfo) 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

%groupinfo
    open(IN, "groupinfo") or die "Can't open groupinfo: $!";
    while (<IN>) {

     chomp($line);
     ($name, $desc) = split /:/, $line;
     if (/$line/){
     $groupinfo{$name} = $desc;

     }
    }
print "%desc";

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i cant even get it to compile and have no idea what im doing wrong. e.g so say if groupinfo looks like this:- 
aaaa:bbbb
cccc:dddd

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and you run it:- 
[xxx]$ perl groupinfo.pl aaaa groupinfo

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it will print:- 
bbbb

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Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

20040421 Edit by BazB: Changed title from 'need help with perl'

In reply to How do I use command line arguments? by Anonymous Monk

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