I want to pass in an argument so that the script only looks for a certain pattern. This is not working for me. Something about my 'If' statements is erroring.

If I remove all the options and 'IF' statement, the actual printing of the error message works but I want to choose what it will be searching for. 

use strict;
use warnings;

my $file = $ARGV[0]; 
my $purpose = $ARGV[1];

open( FILE, "$file" ) or die "Can't open $file: $!";

while ( <FILE> ) 
{
If ($purpose = "sqlerrors")

    {
           print if ( /SQL Error:/i .. m{^\s*$});
    }

If ($purpose = "othererrors")

    {
           print if ( /OTHER Error:/i .. m{^\s*$});
    }

If ($purpose = "missingfile")

    {
           print if ( /Missing File:/i .. m{^\s*$});
    }


}
close FILE;

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In reply to Process File Different Way Based on Passed in Argument by ChrisCK

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