Yes that did the trick, thanks again poj. Just noticed that this block of code works only if searching for one computer: 
# result
if ($count){
  print "$count matches\n";
} else {
  print "No matches found\n";

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It doesn't work when searching for a list of computers. If some of the computers are found the one(s) not found "No matches found" is not returned. Is there a way to print "$name - no matches found\n"; In the following block of code? Maybe something like this? 
# search text file
open IN, '<',$file or die "Could not open $file : $!";
while (my $line = <IN>){
  # repeat line search for each computer
  foreach my $search (@computers) {
    if ( my ($name) = $line =~ /($search[\.\w]*)/ ){
      print "Name ; $name\n";
      ++$count;
    } else 
    if ( my ($name) = $line =~ /($search[-eq " "]*)/ ){
     print "$name -- No matches found\n";
  }
 }
}

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-Tony

In reply to Re^9: 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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