Hello everyone, I really need help and I feel stupid on not knowing how to make this but I am completely stumped as to what to do. I need to make a palindrome program that reads 7 characters from a user and tests to see if it is a palindrome or not. But I cannot use a reverse function, and everywhere I look people use the reverse function, can anyone point me in the right direction without actually giving me the answer? This is what I have so far 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;

my ($a, $b, $result);
print "Enter a item that is 7 characters\n";
chomp ($a = <>);
chomp ($b = <>);
if ($a eq $b && $b eq $a)
{
    print "THIS IS A PALINDROME!!! \n";
}
else
{
    print "THIS IS NOT A PALINDROME \n";
}

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