Hello monks... I have kind of a question...I have this code that pushes lines to an array if a certain condition is true: 

my (@search);
my $query = "perl";

open(FILE, "myfile.txt");
flock(FILE, 1);
my @lines = <FILE>;
close(FILE);

     foreach my $lines(@lines){
        chomp($lines);
        push(@search, $lines) if grep { /$query/ } $lines;
     }

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This checks each line to see if it has the word perl in it...if it has it pushes the whole line to the @search array. My problem is that sometimes the text doesnt have the word..so I need to know if @search has any content... How can I do this? I already tried 
if(@search){
   print "Hey...I found something\n"
}

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But it doesnt seem to work... Any help is gladly accepted... Thanks

In reply to Checking Arrays by kidd

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