Hello- I am a beginning Perl programmer and I have been working on this problem for days. I want to loop through an array of motifs and find matches by looping through a second array. I have tried everything that I can think of and I either get no result,one match or an infinite loop. The code below only gives one match. Thanks so much. Sunfish 
$size_array = scalar @car;
for($k=0; $k<$size_array; $k++)
{
     foreach $car(@car)
     {
           if ($make[$k] =~ /$car/)
           {
           push (@shop, $make[$k]);
           print cftr2dmatch2 "@shop";
           next;
           }
           else
           {
           next;
           }
     }
}

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