Hello Hello Monks!
Identified as homework! I am sure I am just not putting my mind into this, but I understand the logic, just not how to get there.
Basically, I have the list of cities, and want the user to enter a city of their choice, LA is there but I wanted it to spit back (LA is not an option).
On top of that be able to take their input (be it one letter or the entire name) and match it to the array and print the results.
I hope this makes some sense, any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. 
my $myCities = "Baltimore:Chicago:Los Angeles:New York:San Diego:";
my @myCities = split(':', $myCities);


print "Please pick one of the following cities by entering any portion
+ of the beginning of the city name:(Baltimore Chicago Los Angeles New
+ York San Diego)\n";
chomp (my $input_city = <STDIN> );

       foreach $city (@myCities) {
               if ( $input_city == $myCities )  {
                     #exists;
               } else {
                       print "I'm sorry,we no longer tour LA, please t
+ry again.\n";
               }
       }

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In reply to **HomeWork** Trying to search an array and match it to a user input by trenchwar

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