Ok, here's one of those "what am I doing wrong" questions that I'm sure has an answer so simple I'm just over looking it.

I'm searching a flatfile database with the code:
if ($thread_data[4] =~ m/$in{for}/i) {
    print $thread_data[0];
}

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where $thread_data[4] is what I'm seaching in, $in{for} is what I'm seaching for, and thread_data[0] is an index number telling me what thread returned true. This returns results, but it often returns results that don't contain any part of $in{for} string.

So my question is, what am I getting these erronious results?

Thanks in advance

In reply to Search string giving incorrect results by Bishma

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