Hi NetWallah, Thanks so much for your quick response and a solution that works! If you can please take a look at the following code and let me know what I am doing wrong I would greatly appreciate it. If I can get this to work then I will be able to accomplish what I need to do for my first perl script. I think I am close to getting this to worK? Thanks, 
my $file = "computers.txt";

print "-->>Paste computer name(s) here, press enter key, then ctrl-D k
+eys<<--\n";

@computers = (<STDIN>);
 foreach (@computers) {
open FILE, "$file";
 while ($line=<FILE>){
if (my ($name) = $line=~/(@computers[\.\w]*)/){
    print "name\n";
else 
    print "no match found\n";
close FILE, "$file";
  }
 }
}

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Regards, Tony

In reply to Re^2: Print word from text file that is not an exact match by TonyNY
in thread Print word from text file that is not an exact match by TonyNY

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