Re^2: **HomeWork** Trying to search an array and match it to a user input

You can also take a look at the module Text::Abbrev. It makes it easy to work with abbreviations of strings.

%hash = abbrev (split(':', "Baltimore:Chicago:Los Angeles:New York:San Diego:"));
chomp (my $input_city = <STDIN> );
if (exists $hash{$input_city}) { ...... }

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