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Each line of the input file is probably going to look something like: 

John Doe\n

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And your regex: /^\Q$student\E$/ will never match any line in that file, because it doesn't allow for the trailing newline. Thus, $student will always get printed, even if the name already exists. F


Dave

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Re^3: appending to a file
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 27, 2004 at 05:41 UTC

    Did you even try running my script? If you had, you'd have seen that it works just fine. Notice the anchor I used. '$', not '\z'. So the match works just fine thank you.

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      thanks so much it work fine
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