Hi good day to all. I have created a module which will load a list of addresses and help users to search for the name they wanted to search. I just cant load the list so the search returns nothing. here is my module, please help, thanks a many. 

package Load;

#use strict;
use warnings;
use vars qw ($VERSION @ARRAY_LIST @SEARCH_STRING);
our $VERSION=0.10;
our @ARRAY_LIST=();
our @SEARCH_STRING=();

sub new {
    my ($class) = @_;
    my $self = {
        _listNames => undef,
        _search => undef
    };
    bless $self,$class;
    return $self;
}

sub listNames {
    my ($self,$listNames) = @_;
    $self->{_listNames}= $listNames if defined ($listNames);
    open(LIST,"$listNames") || die "Error::Cannot load names!!!\n";
    #my $buff="./data/buffed.dat";
    #open(BUFF,">$buff") || die "Error::Cannot load buffer file!!!\n";
    while(<LIST>) {
        chomp($_);
        push (@ARRAY_LIST,$_);
    }
}

sub search {
    my ($self,$search) = @_;
    $self->{_search}=$search if defined ($search);
    our @SEARCH_STRING=grep(/$search/,@ARRAY_LIST);
}

sub display {
    my    ($self) = @_;
    print "\n\nSearching directory ...\n\n";
    sleep 2;
    print "Search Results:\n";
    print "=======================================\n\n";
    foreach $files (@SEARCH_STRING){
    print "$files\n";
}
}

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And here is my perl script: 

#! /usr/perl/bin/perl

use lib qw(./modules);
use warnings;
use Load;

$list="./data/list.txt";
$dir=Load->new();
$dir=Load->listNames($list);
$counter=0;
print "=============================================\n";  
print "==           D I R E C T O R Y             ==\n";  
print "=============================================\n\n";
sleep 1;
### Search Loop
until($counter==1){
print "Please enter name to be searched:\n\n";
chomp($string=<STDIN>);
sleep 2;
$dir=Load->search($string);
$dir=Load->display();
sleep 2;
print "Would you like to search another?[y/n]\n\n";
chomp($ans=<STDIN>);
if ($ans=~/^[yY]/){
    print "\n";
    next;
}
elsif ($ans=~/^[Nn]/){
    print "\nClosing directory ...\n\n";
    sleep 2;
    $counter++;
}
else {
    $counter++;
}
}

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In reply to how can i load the files and search for match? by rianne809

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