mantra2006,
I agree with others, this looks like homework. After reading a few of the 70+ other posts you have made over the last year, I am willing to give you the benefit of a doubt. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $file = $ARGV[0] or die "Usage: $0 <input_file>";
open(my $fh, '<', $file) or die "Unable to open '$file' for reading: $
+!";

my $header = <$file>;
chomp $header;
my @field = split /:/, $header;

print "What field would you like to look for?\n";
my $choice = <STDIN>;
chomp $choice;

while (<$fh>) {
    chomp;
    my %record;
    @record{@field} = split /:/;
    print "$record{$choice}\n";
}

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It is untested and intentionally does not do a lot of the error checking that it should. These are tasks that you will need to do yourself.

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re: File Reading by Limbic~Region
in thread File Reading by mantra2006

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