Hello! I just started to learn perl a few weeks ago using the O'Reilly books so please bare with this simple question.

I am using Visual Studio (with the Perl mod from activestate) to write this code to work in windows.

The following code is a piece of a larger program. I want to ask the user for a number and use that as the key to pull a value out of the hash. But I have not been successful. Her is the code below: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Give me a number for the tile and I will tell you the color\n";
$a=<STDIN>;
print $a."\n";
%Number = qw(1 Red
    2 Yellow
    3 Green 
    4 Black 
    5 Purple 
    6 Pink 
    7 Brown 
    8 Blue 
    9 Orange);

print $Number{$a}."\n";

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The strange thing is when I set $a to a value in the code (ie $a=5 instead of <STDIN>) I get the correct answer. Any ideas?!! And thanks in advance for your help!!

In reply to Selecting a specific hash key to find a value by JustLikeThat

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