Greetings Monks! My question and code below I am trying to extract data from two files at once. I need to pull data from different fields from each file. My code is below when executed the output is blank. Thanks in advance! 

open(MYINPUTFILEONE, "DATA/dataone.txt"); # open for input
open(MYINPUTFILETWO, "DATA/datatwo.txt"); # open for input
$| = 1;
my @linesone = <MYINPUTFILEONE>; # read file into list
my @linestwo = <MYINPUTFILETWO>; # read file into list
close (MYINPUTFILEONE);
close (MYINPUTFILETWO);
printf ("                     =================\n\n"); 
printf ("                     |  VERIFY NAME  |\n\n"); 
printf ("                     =================\n\n");
my $verify = <STDIN>;
$verify = <STDIN> until defined $verify; 
chomp($verify);
printf ("                           =================\n\n"); 
printf ("                           |  VERIFY OWNER |\n\n"); 
printf ("                           =================\n\n");
my $ownerverify = <STDIN>;
$ownerverify = <STDIN> until defined $ownerverify; 
chomp($ownerverify);

my $found = 0;

foreach my $verify2 (@linesone, @linestwo) {
chomp;
my @fieldone = split(":");
my @fieldtwo = split(":");
if (($verify2 =~ /(?<![\w-])$verify(?![\w-])/i) && ($verify2 =~ /(?<![
+\w-])$ownerverify(?![\w-])/i)) {
printf ($fieldone[0], $fieldtwo[1], $fieldone[3]);

$found =1;
} 

} # END FILE LOOP

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