Hello Monks, this question is probably rudimentary but I can not seem to figure it out on my own. I have a file and in it is a bunch of paths like this: "\\my.domain.net\Apps\Sketchup" "\\fs-10\licenses\Sketchups" and so fourth - there are alot of lines in this file. I am trying to write a script that takes standard in like ./script.pl "Apps\Sketchup" and then matches the line in the file and sets the first column to one variable and the second colums to another variable sans the quotes. But I am stuck on the matching at this point. Here is my script so far: 
$my_default="\\\\my\.domain\.net\\";
$my_file="info.txt";
my $path = shift @ARGV;


sub usage{
        print STDERR "\nUsage:\n";
        print STDERR "\t$0 \"the\path\"\n";
        print "\n";
}

sub grep_pattern{
       # print "$patten\n";
        foreach (@my_data)
        {print "$_\n" if /$pattern/;
        }
print "\n\n";
}

sub print_array{
        for ($i=0; $i<=$#my_data;$i++)
        {print $my_data[$i], "\n";
        }
print "\n\n";
}

unless ($path){
        &usage;
        exit (-1);
}


open(HANDLE, $my_file) || die("Open the file failed!");
@my_data=<HANDLE>;

print_array;

# Try and find the ARGV
$pattern = $path;
print "Searching for: $pattern\n";
grep_pattern;

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At this point I cant even get a match. Can one of you Monks point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance

In reply to Pattern matching and setting the match to a variable by mrbbq

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