I am going to add my code so you guys can take a look at what i have so far

 
#! /usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
#opening the file that i am reading from
open TEST, 'test.txt' or die $!;
#saving the file as a hash
my %test = <TEST>;

#looping through the hash and printing out all the words
# i am going to eventualy have the person enter a sylable to look up r
+hyming words

for (keys %test) {
    print "$_";
    
    }
# and then give the definition of the word that you type in
    print " Please Enter A Word ";
    my $choice = <STDIN>;
#the vaariable to check if the word is in the file
    my $word = 10;
for (keys %test) { 
#if it is print out the definition (the hash value)
    if ($choice eq $_) { print $test{$_}; $word = 1;    }
    
    }
close TEST;
#if it is not then say sorry word not found and ask them to retype it 
+and a definition
if ($word != 1) {
open TEST, '>>test.txt' or die $!;
print "Sorry Word Not Found\n";
print "Please Re-enter Word\n";
my $input = <STDIN>;
print "Please Enter Definition\n ";
my $def = <STDIN>;
#append the word to the file
print TEST "\n",$input;
print TEST $def;

 }

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In reply to Re^3: adding a return to a file by AlexanderTheGreat
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