Perl related question

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

hi,
iam perl begginer,i have written the program

#!/usr/bin/perl
#use warnings;
use strict;
print "Enter the name:","\n";
my $name=<STDIN>;
my %hash=(siva => "9902774481",
      dev => "9916391244",
      venky => "9440506760",
     manohar => "9440232695"
    );
print "$name no is: $hash{$name}","\n";

iam not getting expected output
my expected output is

enter the name:siva
siva no is:9902774481

but what iam getting is

enter the name:siva
siva no is:

number iam nt getting....will anybdy solve this

2

First please use code tags

Please use code tag

Probably you might save few seconds when not using it, but many in the forum have to spend their time in reading the code that is not within CODE tags, please use code tags.

Try,

chomp($name)
3

what is that code tag means..wl u explain..plzzz

4

@siva.hardwork: This link explains how to use code-tags.

5

oh! balajesuri@ by the time I searched for that awesome video, you posted it. Thanks

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And please don't use cyber chat style language

6

thanks ...i used 'chomp' .it is working fine....
will you please send me some perl progrmming questions..to get practice..??