the output that i wrote in the post is an error

But you haven't shown what the correct output should be so we can only guess what you are trying to do. Here's my guess, matching a combination of words from FIC with lines in FICC

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; my @FIC = (); #open FIC,'<','fic.txt' or die "$!"; #while (my $line = <FIC>){ # next unless $line =~ /\S/; # my @words = split /\s+/,$line; # push @FIC,[ @words ]; #} #close FIC; @FIC = ( [ qw(chirac prime paris)], [ qw(chirac prime jacques) ], [ qw(chirac prime president) ], [ qw(chirac paris france) ], [ qw(chirac paris french) ], ); my $u=0; open FICC,'<','ficc.txt' or die "$!"; #open OUT, '>','output.txt' or die "$!"; while (my $line = <FICC>){ ++$u; next unless $line =~ /\S/; # skip blank lines for my $ar (@FIC){ my @matched = grep $line=~/$_/,@$ar; if (@matched == @$ar){ print "$u: $line matched all words : @matched\n\n"; #print OUT "$u: $line matched all words : @matched\n\n"; last; } } } close FICC; #close OUT __DATA__ chirac presidential migration chirac presidential paris jacques chirac has been the prime minster and the president chirac presidential 007 chirac paris migration chirac aaa french bbb paris ccc
poj

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