I'm having problems using =~ in my scripts basiclly I have this array called @names filled with names. I also have this varriable called $request. I need to figure out if $request is one of the names or part of one of them. currently I'm using 
    $j=0;
    $g=0;
    foreach $line(@vname){
      chomp($line);
      if($vname[$j] =~ /i|"$request"/){
        print qq~
          <tr>
            <td><a href=\"mailto:$email[$j] \">$vname[$j] </a></td>
          </tr>
        ~;
        $g++;
      }
      $j++;

    }

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$g just counts how many times it came up valid. my problem is it's counting names that have nothing to do with the request but not all of the names.

Edit: 2001-03-03 by neshura

In reply to the god awful =~ by £okì

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