I cannot get the kinks worked out of the following program. I have been reading three different reference books plus loads of online tutorials and I learn best by doing. So I decided to use my knew knowledge of associative arrays to write a program that would

1.)Prompt the user to type in their name

2.)Take the name from input and compare it to an associative array of names+values

3,)Respond to the name from input according to it's relationship to the data in the array

4.)Print out the key+values ina sentence at the end telling the user their name followed by their role in my family.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#Family.pl
#use strict
#use warnings


$name=<stdin>;
%family['Connie',=>'Mama','Brandy',=>'Sissy','Pete',=>'Dude','Tristan'
+,=>'Stinky',
'Sophera',=>'Finky','priscilla',=>'BearDawg'];

print"Please type in your name:"/n;
$name=<stdin>/n;
            
if((name=<stdin>)!=%family[])
            {
print"Thank you $name for participating but you are not family./n";
             }

else-if(($name=<stdin>)==%family[])
        {
    print"Hey $name, thank you for being my %family[]!\n";

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In reply to Using associative arrays with I/O to interact with Prog. User by dlapre01

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