Hello Perl monks, I have an issue w.r.t to searching for an entry in a file... I haver text file of the format: 
C:\EITV10CM\base\repair\Companion_Repair\File2File\F2F.COM ... is OK.
C:\EITV10CM\base\repair\Companion_Repair\File2SelfExt\F2SEXT.CMP ... i
+s OK.
C:\EITV10CM\base\repair\Companion_Repair\File2SelfExt\F2SEXT.COM ... F
+ound the CMPAN/File2SelfExt virus !!!
        The virus has been removed from the file.
Checking for another virus in the file ...              
C:\EITV10CM\base\repair\Companion_Repair\File2SelfExt\F2SEXT.COM ... i
+s OK

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Below is the piece of code which was written by me... 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
#Program to read the command line report file; and extract the virus d
+etection name for a file.
my $cmdrep = "d:/eitv10cm_cln.rep";


my $fname = "D:\\EITV10CM\\base\\repair\\Companion_Repair\\File2SelfEx
+t\\F2SEXT.COM";
my ($found,$virusname,$flag,$i);
(@dirtemp) = split /:/,$fname
shift @dirtemp;
foreach $itemp ( @dirtemp  )
{
   $filepath .= $itemp;
}
    
    open FH, "$cmdrep" or die "Cannot open $cmdrep. \n";
    while (<FH>) 
    {    
        chomp;
        next if $_ !~ /^\Q$filepath\E/i;
        chomp($_);
        /\s\.{3}\s(.*)/;
        $found = $1;
        if ($found eq "is OK.")
        {
            $virusname = "OK";
            print "The virus detection name is $virusname\n";
            last;
            
        }
        if ($found =~ /^Found: (.*?) NOT a virus[.]/) 
        {
            $virusname = $1;
            print "The virus detection name is $virusname\n";
            last;
        }
        elsif ($found =~ /^Found the (.*?) (virus|trojan) !!!/) 
        {
                $virusname = $1;
                print "The virus detection names is $virusname\n";
                last;
        }
        elsif ($found =~ /^Found potentially unwanted program (.*?)[.]
+/)
        {
            $virusname = $1;
            print "PuPs $virusname \n";
            last;
        }
        elsif ($found =~ /Found (virus or variant|application) (.*?)( 
+!!!|[.])/) 
        {
            $virusname = $2;
            print "Virus or variant $virusname \n \n";
            $flag =1;
            last;
        } 
        
    }
    close(FH);
}

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Since the drive letters in the variable and text file are the only ones which vary, i have tried to remove the drive letter from $fname; this doesnt match in the text file at all even though the remaining of the string is the same. Could u please help me with this...dont know how to go about doing it.

In reply to Problem with searching for an entry in a file by nisha

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