Hi, Guys. I am new here but I have a quick question that I haven't been able to find an answer for. When you declare a variable as STDIN, it will assign the inputed information to the variable you declared(as I'm sure you already know this.). And there are loads of tutorials out there on that kind of stuff, but I can't find any tutorials that actually teach you how to do it with a text input! This is how I would expect it to work but it obviously doesn't: 

#!usr/bin/perl

print "type hw to print hello world script!";

$cmd = <stdin>;

if ( cmd = hw )
{
print "Hello, world";
}

else {

Print "sorry I didn't understand the command.";
}

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