Based off your very limited description, I'm surmising that $mk contains a return delimited list of folders and you're trying to determine if $folder is present.

As davido already pointed out, grep is not what you need for this because that is meant only for array operations. If you're just working on a scalar, you can do the test directly. Secondly, based off your regex, I suspect your problem is you're not using the 'm' modifier which would make it so ^ and $ matched the beginning and end of any line within the text, not just the start and end of the string.

Here's an example that does match like you want

my $mk = <<'END_LIST';
/foo/bar
/foo/baz
/eep/foo/bar
/epp/foo/baz
/biz
/baz/foo/bar
END_LIST

my $folder = '/foo/baz';

my $folder_present = $mk =~ /^\Q$folder\E$/im;

print "$folder_present"; # Prints 1

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In reply to Re: Grep failing by wind
in thread Grep failing by Anonymous Monk

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