Hello Monks

My objective is to search a database that is in a text file called qqq.txt with values on another text file called exp.txt. When running this script it only returns one match. If there is a match it should print the text that is associated with the value that is split from the database. I expected 3 matches because the database contains 3 values and the exp.txt file has the same 3 identical values. Its as if the script stops after one iteration. Any suggestions as to how to improve code to resolve this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. And I do realize I did not have "or die" text in Open file statement. Ostra 

open(INDB, "exp.txt"); 
open(DATA, "qqq.txt");

while(<INDB>) {
$search = $_;
chomp($search);
seek(INDB, 0, 0);




while(<DATA>) {
$therec = $_;


    chomp($therec);


   ($ma,$id ) = split(/\t/, $therec);
  if($id eq $search){

     print " $ma\n ";
 
  }
}
  }

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