Hi dirtdog,

In addition to kennethk's solution of your problem, a few points on the grep:

• You don't seem to need the variable @type, or if you do, I'd recommend breaking it out into a separate statement for readability. That is, consider one of these alternatives:
  1. print "..." unless grep /\b$team\b/, ...;
  2. my @type = grep /\b$team\b/, ...; print "..." unless @type;
  3. my $type = grep /\b$team\b/, ...; print "..." unless $type; (in scalar context, grep returns a count of matched items)
• Since you're just trying to see if any of the elements of the array match, and you're not interested in all matches, consider using first or any from List::Util. Or, if you're just interested in exact matches, build a hash from the array where the keys are the elements of the array, and then use hash lookups.
• Consider using /\b\Q$team\E\b/, as otherwise any characters in $team which happen to be regex metacharacters (such as .) will keep their special meaning. See also Mind the meta!
• The regex /\b$team\b/ will match even if may match in some cases when $team is only a substring of the string being searched. If you want exact matches, you can use grep {$_ eq $team} ... (but in that case, a hash lookup would probably be better).

Updated: Updated text of last bullet point slightly, as per Athanasius's reply.

Hope this helps,
-- Hauke D

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