The statement matches fine. I've reworked your code a little to be a little more Perlish and compact (and to avoid files for test code), but the regex is still there as in your code and it does work. Consider:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my @data = qw(analysis data power seek true);

my @keywd = qw(analysis analyzing applications co-principal
    completed computer computing consulting data
    );

for my $element (@data) {
    for my $i (0 .. $#keywd) {
        if ($element =~ m/$keywd[$i]/i) {
            print "$i\n";
        }
    }
}

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Prints:

0
8

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However, if you are not interested in the element index, but just in testing for the match, I'd be more inclined to use a hash:

...
my %keywdHash;

@keywdHash{@keywd}= (); # Use a hash slice to initialise the hash

for my $element (@data) {
    if (exists $keywdHash{lc $element}) {
        print "$element\n";
    }
}

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Prints:

analysis
data

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DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re: Finding problem with finding keywords in arrays / files by GrandFather
in thread Finding problem with finding keywords in arrays / files by akirostar

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