Below is snippet what I have tried so far

# this is called in foreach loop and stores returns the file in array for elem and item.

 my $ref_to_elem_entries = myfunction($itend_file);

# This is the pattern which I look for in elem.txt if @myarr = "ELEM-3"

my @intend_elem = (win,won,wion,wiin,woon,wiioon); foreach my $itend_elem (@intend_elem) { if ($ask =~ /^SA/ && (@myarr ==1 && $myarr[0] eq 'ELEM-3')) {push @m_ref_to_elem_entries, grep(/^reg\b/,@$ref_to_elem_entries) } else {@m_ref_to_elem_entries = @$ref_to_elem_entries} }

With above piece of code If condition gives me only lines for ELEM-3 and lines which has pattern stored in @intend_elem.

Else condition gives me all lines for Item & Elem files.

So far - if @myarr contains only ELEM-3 I have my result else I have results for all.

In reply to Re^2: Perl:Use of array elements in pattern matching by rahulme81
in thread Perl:Use of array elements in pattern matching by rahulme81

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