Roy thank you for replying. The below script is what I think you were saying. 
print"\n";
print "Please enter file name and path:";
chomp($filename = <STDIN>);
print "File Name: $filename";
print "\n";
open DAFILE, "$filename";
open (HintsFile, "Hints.txt") or die "Can't find file\n";

#$input = <DAFILE>;
$hints = <HintsFile>;


open(testfile,"Hints.txt");
$i=0;
@daarray = ();
while(<testfile>){

    $daarray[$i] = $_;
    $i++;
}
close(testfile);
for($j=0; $j<$i; $j++)
    {
    $hints = $daarray[$j];
    ($first,$last) = split(/\ == /,$hints);
    if($first =~ m/$input/i)
        {print "Found: $last";
         print "\n";
        }    
    }    

print "Search Complete\n";
close DAFILE;
close HintsFile;

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Thank you very much for the advice! I'm still having some issues with the search, any thoughts? arebc

In reply to Re^2: Search Script by arebc
in thread Search Script by arebc

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