Hi fellow Monks!

I am encountering this error "Use of uninitialized value $word in print at C:\test\test.pl" every time I put anchors ^ or $ beside the variable $key. My goal here is to grab the exact searchword in the list and return its corresponding website. I am having trouble when in case that my searchword is "ICS" (which has an empty website in the list) but instead returning "TRONICS" which has a value.

Here is my code:

my $key = "searchword";
my $path = "C:\\test\\list.txt";

open(INFILE, "<$path");
    while (<INFILE>) {
        if ( /^$key\t(www\.[^.]*\.com)/i ) {
            my $word = $1;
        }
                
    }

print $word;    
close(INFILE);

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Thank you in advance for adding your inputs in to this one!

In reply to Use of uninitialized value in regexp by bbb

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