Hello StalkinYerMa, and welcome to the Monastery!

From the contents of the strings in @strings, it looks like you want to use regex metacharacters. If so, the line:

if($info =~ /\Q$string\E/)

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is not what you want, as \Q turns metacharacters back into ordinary characters. The commented-out line:

if($info =~ m{^$string$})

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is better, but it may be too restrictive if you want to match part of an input line only. If you use simply:

if ($info =~ /$string/)

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what happens? If this still isn’t what you want, you will need to supply sample input (from the contents of $file_in, which is never defined, BTW), together with the output you are getting and the output you expect/want to get.

A couple of unrelated points:

  1. $count = $count+1; may be written more concisely as ++$count;.

  2. It would be more efficient to chomp($info); in the outer foreach loop.

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: Regex problem i think? by Athanasius
in thread Regex problem i think? by StalkinYerMa

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