Someone correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't it be better to just read the file in a line at a time?

my @matched_line;
open FILE, "<$inputFileName" or die "$!\n";
while (<FILE>) {
     push @matched_line, $_ if (/$name/);
}
close FILE;
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I am relativley new to Perl so that may not work, but I thought I would throw it out there.