Good webpage..never seen it before thanks. I should of posted more code including the "split" section.

foreach my $Name2 (@lines) {
my @field = split(':',$Name2);
if ($field[1] =~ /(?<![\w-])$Name(?![\w-])/i) {
my $format = "           %-4s %-11s %-13s %-10s %-7s %0s\n";
print color 'bold green';
printf ($format, $field[0], $field[1], $field[2], $field[3], $field[4]
+, $field[5]);
} 
}
[download]

Complete Code

This is incomplete because I don't know what the @lines array contains (or $Name). I suspect some of your lines have fewer than 6 fields. See also the basic debugging checklist

@lines is data retrieved from the data file and Name is the query used to pull from the data file...complete code below:

open(MYINPUTFILE, "namedata.txt");
my @lines = <MYINPUTFILE>;
close (MYINPUTFILE);

my $Name = <STDIN>;
$Name = <STDIN> until defined $Name;
chomp($Name);

foreach my $Name2 (@lines) {
my @field = split(':',$Name2);
if ($field[1] =~ /(?<![\w-])$Name(?![\w-])/i) {
my $format = "           %-4s %-11s %-13s %-10s %-7s %0s\n";
print color 'bold green';
printf ($format, $field[0], $field[1], $field[2], $field[3], $field[4]
+, $field[5]);
} 
}
__DATA__
ID:Name:Last:Birthday:Phone:Email:Website
[download]