Question

I’m new to Perl and I’m writing a program where I want to force the user to enter a word. If the user enters an empty string then the program should exit.

This is what I have so far:

print "Enter a word to look up: ";

chomp ($usrword = <STDIN>);

Answer 1

You’re almost there.

print "Enter a word to look up: ";
my $userword = <STDIN>; # I moved chomp to a new line to make it more readable
chomp $userword; # Get rid of newline character at the end
exit 0 if ($userword eq ""); # If empty string, exit.