What have you tried so far? Monks tend to offer more help to people who are trying to solve a problem, versus people looking to have the community write their code for them.

Good places to start would be open and split.

The basic flow of the program should be something like this:

  1. Open the file
  2. Read each line, splitting the text into article and noun.
  3. Find the total number of entries
  4. Generate a random number between 1 and the last index of the set
  5. Loop, Printing the noun and testing user input against the article
A few hints:
Open a file: 
open my $fh, '<', $filename or die "Failed to open $filename - $!";

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Read the file one line at a time: 
while (my $line = <$fh>) {
 # Do something with $line
}

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Check the number of items in a list (by evaluating a list in scalar context): 
my $count = @list;

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Get a line of input: 
  my $answer = <STDIN>;

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Update - hint: always use strict and warnings
Always use the following at the top of your script:
use strict;
use warnings;

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By default perl is extremely forgiving and tries to do what you mean. Sometimes this is desireable, but normally you want perl to be strict and catch the mistakes you make. Save yourself a lot of debugging time by always using both strict and warnings.

In reply to Re: german nouns gender by imp
in thread german nouns gender by vik

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