Actually i modified the problem and posted it here to make it simple. But that worked. But here goes the actual problem, the string values will be, 
$row{test_name} will contain any of these values,
"BEFORE-AFTER.etest"
"DEFAULT.etest"
"ORDER-ROLLBACK.etest"
"{PRCIII.etest: logging size 100}"
"ROLLBACK.etest"
"SIDE-EFFECTS.etest"
"SYNTAX.etest"

#then i check for PRC
if( $row{test_name} =~ "PRC" )
{ print "PRC-------"; }

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Really this problem is there only with PRC, which is in CURLY braces.
Or can you tell me how to remove the starting and trailing curly braces.

thanks
rsennat

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