this works great. However, I have one issue in that the file has 2 lines in it and only the first line gets printed. 
 
my $pattern = join '|', @words;
my $forx;
open my $bpfh1, '>', \$forx or die $!;
        for (@bpj) {
        print $bpfh1 "$_\n", $_ if /$pattern/;
}


open my $bpfh1, '<', \$forx or die $!;
  while (<$bpfh1>) {
my @fields = split(',', $_);
my $fields;
 local $" = ',';

       if ($fields[2] eq '1' ||$fields[2] eq '0') {
             print "THESE ARE THE>>$fields[4]\n" if /MONTHLY/ && !/,-,
+/;
}
        
close $bpfh1;
          }
close $bpfh1;
}

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So what I get is LISTING-INVENTORY-CATALOG LISTING-PURCHASING-CATALOG The variable (memory file) $forx does contain data, and it prints out just fine. But only the first line. I have tried different things to make the second line print, such as closing the file earlier, but it doesn't work. I've had this problem before but can't remember how I got it resolved. Any ideas?

In reply to Re^4: removing the need for tmp files from script by novice2015
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