Hi everyone!
I'm new here and pretty much new to Perl, sorry if my question should sound lame but I really need your help..
I have a text file containing queries, one per row. I put these query inside an array. What I want to do next is search a whole text file - sort of a dictionary (which has one entry per row and is formatted like this: word1]definition)for occurrences of the words contained in the array.
My code is the following: 
open(HH, "<$PATHDATA/query.txt");
open(XX, "<$PATHDATA/dictionary.txt");
open(DD, ">$PATHDATA/query_results.txt");

my $query;
my $line="";
$i=0;
my @query;
    
    while(<HH>){
                chomp;
                push @query,$_; 
                    
    }


                        
    foreach $query (@query) {
        while($line=<XX>){
            
            if ($line =~ m/^($query)\].*/i) {
                print DD "MATCH:$line\n";
                if($debug){
                    print GREEN, "QUERY:$query\n";
                    print MAGENTA, "MATCH:$line\n";
                }
            }
        }
    }

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I'd like to have something like this as an output:
QUERY:facebook
MATCH:facebook]social network....
The code I posted get me only the first result (because facebook is actually the first element in my array). How can I get it to print every match for every possible query?
Thanks for your help,
Giu

In reply to Sort of basic search engine/pattern matching problems by bvulnerbility

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