Catfish, you still have a typo: you dropped the closing parenthesis for the if() block.

use v5.12;
use warnings;


my $Namelist  = 'Wilma Fred Barney Betty Dino';

if ( $Namelist =~  m/(\w+a)/ ) {
    print "Matched|$<$&$>|\n";
    say "The name that matched was $1 \n";
}  else {
    print "No match: \n";
}

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This code results in: 

Matched|0Wilma0|
The name that matched was Wilma

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Note the strange "0" before and after "Wilma". I am in Windows, so I don't get a $< UID or a $> EUID. As I pointed out, those varibles make no sense in the context of trying to print matched output. When I asked what you "what were you trying to do with those", I was trying to get clarification of what you wanted your output to look like. Were you trying to have angle brackets literally used in your output? like: 

Matched|<Wilma>|
The name that matched was Wilma

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That would be accomplished with print "Matched|<$&>|\n";

Or were you trying to have literal dollar signs and literal angle brackets? like: 

Matched|$<Wilma>$|
The name that matched was Wilma

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That would be accomplished with print "Matched|\$<$&\$>|\n";

Or did you just really want Wilma to be printed between the vertical bars? like: 

Matched|Wilma|
The name that matched was Wilma

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That would be accomplished with print "Matched|$&|\n";

Or did you really want the linux user-id number ($<) and effective user-id number ($>) to surround Wilma? like: 

Matched|###Wilma###|
The name that matched was Wilma

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(where ### are actual numbers, not the number-signs I have shown): That would be accomplished with print "Matched|$<$&$>|\n";

In reply to Re^4: Simple prog isnt cooperating by pryrt
in thread Simple prog isnt cooperating by catfish1116

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