Try and use some indentation first off, and make sure you're use-ing strict;

But it looks like you're saying the $input doesn't exist if you can't find it ONCE. If you have 10 files and you hit the first file and it doesn't match, are you going to say it doesn't exist?

What you might want is this:

use strict;
...
my $found = 0;
if ( $input ) { 
  foreach my $image ( @files ) {
    # are you just looking to see if image CONTAINS input?
    if ( $image =~ /$input/ ) { 
      $found = 1;
      last;
    }
  }
}
print "$input ".($found ? "found" : "not found")."\n";

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HTH

In reply to Re: if statement doesnt work by RazorbladeBidet
in thread if statement doesnt work by calypso

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