Hi all, I'm back with another schoolboy error. I'm trying to write a wee program to access a hash value (names / phone no's) from the user inputting the key- 
#!/usr/bin/perl
#hash.plx
use warnings;
use strict;
my %phnums = ( derrick => '07786255633',
               juan    => '07798685311',
               kevin   => '07740647707',
);

print "Enter a name : ";
my $name = <STDIN>;
chomp ($name);

if ($name =~ /^derrick\b/i) {
    print $phnums{"derrick"};
}
elsif { ($name =~ /^juan\b/i) {
         print $phnums{"juan"};
} 
else { ($name =~ /^kevin\b/i) { 
        print $phnums{"kevin"};
    }
  }     
}

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but I keep getting the error syntax error at -path- line 17, near "elsif }", or something similar depending on how I've tried to arrange the blocks and curly brackets. I've looked at several tutorials for examples and can't even find it in perldoc or perlfaq. Can someone please tell me where I'm going wrong?

Cheers, Paul.

In reply to using if-elsif-else by thevoid

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