I thought this would be an easy thing but I am having major toubles with it. I am basically trying to create a search engine that will search a specified directory, return all the files in it, and search each file for the matching text. This is for a CGI script by the way. 
if ($com eq "Submit Search") {
    opendir (TEMP, 'po');
    @files = readdir(TEMP);
       foreach $file (@files) {
           open(FILE,"po/$file") || die "can't open ";
         $filein = <FILE>;
        close (FILE);
#        $filein =~ s/,/ /g;
            if (-d $file) {}
                  elsif ($search =~  /$filein/i) {
                     print "<a href=\"index.cgi?file=$file\">$file</a>
+<br><br>";
            }
            else {print "<br>File not Found<br>"; }
    }

}

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i am having trouble with the elsif ($search =~  /$filein/i) { part. $filein is a CSV file that looks something like this: 
D04101,4/10/01,4,30,01,James Bernard,PO Box 4623,Chicago,IL,60680-4623
+,773-379-9873,,,Self-Inking Stamp Red

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So if i search for "james", it comes up as "file not found" even though "james" is clearly in the file. But The File will be found if all it has in it is the word "james". Am i totally missing something. I hope you all can understand what i am looking for. Thanks Elton

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