use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dumper; chomp( my @array = ); for (@array) { chomp; if (/^lib$/) { print "Yes: $_\n"; } else { print "No : $_\n"; } } print "\n", Dumper \@array; __DATA__ nfcclib lib #### No : nfcclib Yes: lib $VAR1 = [ 'nfcclib', 'lib' ];