I'm trying to search a large number of files (file1, file2, etc.). I want to search each file for a different name (Joe, Lee, etc.). I want to see if "Joe" appears in "file1" and "Lee" appears in "file2". I begin with a text file (array.txt) that contains the files and names and put this into an array. 

array.txt:
file1 Joe
file2 Lee
...   ...

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Then, I use "foreach" to work through the items in the array. In the following code, the files "file1" and "file2" will open with each iteration of the "foreach" loop. However, the $name variable in the "if" statement doesn't seem to loop through the names (Joe, Lee) but rather stays on the first name (Joe). Therefore, both "file1" and "file2" are searched for "Joe". I only want to search "file1" for "Joe" then search "file2" for "Lee". Any help is much appreciated! 


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;

my @filelist = ();
my $file='';
my $name='';

open(FILE,"array.txt")||die "Can't open array.txt";
    @filelist=<FILE>;
    close(FILE);

foreach my $line (@filelist){
        my $file=substr($line,0,5);
        chomp $file;
        my $name=substr($line,6,3);  
        chomp $name;
        open (FILE2,"$file"); 
                    while ( <FILE2>) {
                    if (/$name/ismo) {
                        print ("$name found in $file\n");
                    }
               }
        close(FILE2);
}

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In reply to Passing variable to if statement by PeachCityDude

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