Hi I am new to perl and with the aid of this site completed a script to search file A find specific variables then seach file B for the pattern produced. Now this is all well and good except in my second foreach loop it loops once then stops. I am so close but yet so far from completing it. Can anybody suggest why the second foreach loop doesn't work as the rest seems to work fine. Please ingnore the "print..." they are there purily for debugging pruposes. Thanks for everybodies help in adavnce 
 
print "Enter File name and path of .ins?";
$filename1 = <STDIN>;
print "Enter the name of the .rcs file to be searched?";
$filename2 = <STDIN>;


open( FILE, "< $filename1" ) or die( "can't find file1: $ +!" );
     $/=undef;
     @file = <FILE>;
     close(FILE);
    
print @file,\n;

foreach $line (@file) {
    $line =~ /.*EditorName\b.*\b(.+?)\b/;
    $word1 = $1;}

foreach $line2 (@file) {
    $line2 =~ /.*EditorCommand\s+'(\w+)'\s/;
    @word2 = $1;}

print @word2, \n;


open FILE, ">test54.txt" or die "Could not open file: $!\n";
open (Output, ">test54.txt");

foreach $word2 (@word2) {

    { $pattern = $word1.":".$word2;
      if (in_file($pattern, $filename2) ) {
      +
         print Output "Found $pattern in $filename2\n";
          } else {
          print "$pattern not found in $filename2.\n";
      }

          sub in_file {
              my ($pattern, $filename2) = @_;
              open FILE, $filename2 or die "Can't open $filename: $!\n
+";
              my $found =0;
              while (<FILE>) {
                  $found=1, last if /$pattern/;
            }
       close FILE;
       $found;
  }
}
}

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In reply to help needed on a foreach loop from hell!!! by Kentdn

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