Hello all! i recently joined a new company and they've started me on some very basic perl coding but im having trouble with a bit of perl using regex so any help would be much appreciated! Problem: I need to make a list of names in a document such as perl monk etc, then i need to create a script that takes these names and searches through another document for anything matching and then saves it all to a new document so this is what i've come with so far but im having trouble now as it's getting confusing 

#!/usr/bin/perl
# Namecheck Program

$n = 0;    #this is what we will increment to go throug the list

$name = 'Defined Name list';     # Name of the file

$newName = 'name list to check defined list again';    
# Name of the second file

open(Definedlist, $name);         # opens the file and places the cont
+ents into Namelist

open(BigNamelist, $newName);    # opens the second file and places the
+ contents into Newlist

@firstArray = <Definedlist>;     # Read it into an array

@secondArray = <BigNamelist>     # Read it into the second array
 
close(Namelist) || die("Namelist Problem, stopped");             # Clo
+se the file 

close(Newlist) || die("Newlist Problem, stopped");             # Close
+ the file 


foreach $Nameline (@secondArray) # go through each item in array insid
+e the document
{
    egrep @firstArray[$n++] < $Nameline > newName.txt  # go through ar
+ray one and print all the names with that name e.g
                                 (shaun is chosen so print out all the
+ details of that line inside the new document)
        
}



TEST DATA



__Definedlist__

Test
Mai
Program
please


__BigNamelist__

test has scored 20 today with his program
and around the world the program worked
this is a stick situation Mai

[download]
so any help or a drection would be great my wise monks! thank you!

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