Thanks for the super quick response! What I'm trying to do is to use the split to count the occurrences of the filename with the file. I just checked with a print statement and I am getting a split but for some reason, I cannot get the correct number of splits. I can visually count them but I can't seem to get any goot results from something like:

print "$#lines\n";
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Hmm.. here you are saying

print "$#lines\n";
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but in the OP

@line=split(/$variable/,$_);
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Maybe you mean @lines? or perhaps $#line?

If you include

use warnings;
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at the top of your program, perl helps you emitting a warning if, by typo, you are using a variable only once.

$#lines contains the last index of the array @lines which may or may not be one less than the actual number of elements in the array @lines.   To get the actual number of elements of an array you must use the array in scalar context:

print scalar @lines, "\n";
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