This might be getting annoying for some of you that I have trouble coming up with my own ideas for such simple things, but the truth is that I am not very experienced with Perl. This is my forth day of programming it. For some reason this script isn't working on my computer. It is supposed go to every entry in the txt file and return the ones with any matching words that you enter. Could you tell me why? In the process, could you possibly give me a couple of pointers on how to make the script more Perl-like? 


#/usr/bin/perl 


print "Search for what: ";

chomp(my $search = <STDIN>);

@words = split(/ /, $search);

open(DATA, "data.txt") or die "error opening file $!";

@data = <DATA>;

foreach $data(@data) {

    foreach $word(@words) {
        
        chomp($word);        

        if ($data =~ /$word/) {

            print $data;
        
        }

    }

}

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Thanx in advance.

-- zdog (Zenon Zabinski)

In reply to Trying to make a search Part 2 by zdog

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