Ok, I've been trying to break things down with the info you have provided, intially with a simpler problem so I can work out whats going on. I'm trying to print the year from the title in a file called csv3 (which contains 1989 in the title) using the following code but it isn't printing anything, what am I doing wrong? 
 #!/bin/perl

open CSV3, "<csv3" or die;

while (<CSV3>) {

  chomp;

my ($title) = $_ =~ /^.+?,\s*([^,]+?),/; #/ match the title         

    my %words;

    $words{$_}++ for split /\s+/, $title;    #/ get words             

    ## Collect unique words                                           
    #+                                             
    #    my @titlewords = keys(%words);                               
+           
my @titlewords = keys(%words);
#print "$title"


}



sub find_year {
    my( $str ) = @_;
    my $year;
    $year = $1
        if( $str =~ /\b((?:19|20)\d\d)\b/ );
    return $year
}

&find_year ($title);

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I would have thought the   &find_year ($title); would have taken the title and applied the subroutine to this string, picking out the 1989?

In reply to Re^4: Addional "year" matching functionality in word matching script by bms9nmh
in thread Addional "year" matching functionality in word matching script by bms9nmh

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