Hi Monks, I have got a simple problem and want help from u guys. 1) I am reading a file fastaheaders.txt which contains something like this >DFHGSUEIEEK >JKDHUEIEEOE >KDJIEEIOIEO 2) In the second file I am trying to search and print the lines when found . It looks like this >DFHGSUEIEEK ACGTCGTACGATCGATCAGTACGTACGAT // >JKDHUEIEEOE ACGATGCGTACAGTACAGTACAGTACAGT // >KDJIEEIOIEO AGTCGTCGTAGTGTTTTACCCCCATGTCA // >HSKWJSSWWOW AGTAGTAGTAGTAGGGGTTTTTTTTACCC // >ADJHFHIOHFO ACGTGGGGGGGGGGTTATTACCCCCCCCA // >DTEEIJEJEOJE TTTTTTTTTTGGGGGGGGGACCCCCCCAT 3) I am trying to print only those fasta file which are in my fastaheaders.txt file, i.e., >DFHGSUEIEEK >JKDHUEIEEOE >KDJIEEIOIEO. 4) Problem is that my program is doing that but like this:- >DFHGSUEIEEK >DFHGSUEIEEK >DFHGSUEIEEK >DFHGSUEIEEK ACGTCGTACGATCGATCAGTACGTACGAT ACGTCGTACGATCGATCAGTACGTACGAT ACGTCGTACGATCGATCAGTACGTACGAT ACGTCGTACGATCGATCAGTACGTACGAT // >JKDHUEIEEOE >JKDHUEIEEOE >JKDHUEIEEOE >JKDHUEIEEOE >JKDHUEIEEOE ACGATGCGTACAGTACAGTACAGTACAGT ACGATGCGTACAGTACAGTACAGTACAGT ACGATGCGTACAGTACAGTACAGTACAGT ACGATGCGTACAGTACAGTACAGTACAGT 6) Here is my program code... Can you please help me to whats going wrong ??? #!/usr/bin/perl open(FD, "; print "Enter the file name:"; $fn=; open(FH,$fn) || die "Error opening the file:$fn"; while () { foreach $head(@headers) { if (($head =~ /$_/) .. ($_ =~ /\/\//)) { print "$_"; } } } close FH; close FD; print "Loop Finished!";