Hello! Welcome. May I suggest also learning how to use PM to your best advantage? For example, enclose your code with <code> and </code> as such:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
print "Hello, I am Komodo what is your name? ";
$name = <STDIN>;
chomp $name;
print "Hello, $name!\n";
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This makes it much easier for the monks to read. Now that we've done that, I can point you to strict and then to my. Strict basically enforces some guidelines which manage to catch common errors, such as typos. In your example, it wonders if "$name" is valid because you did not pre-declare it. By using "my", you can declare this is a new variable, and strict is satisfied:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
print "Hello, I am Komodo what is your name? ";
my $name = <STDIN>;
chomp $name;
print "Hello, $name!\n";
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And now strict is much happier.