your code is a little hard to understand!!!
please let me know if this solves your problem
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my @arr=('perl','monks','website');
our @files=('file1.txt','file2.txt','file3.txt');
open(LOG,">","output.txt");
my $file;
foreach $file(@files)
{
 open(FILE,"<",$file);
 my @lines=<FILE>;
 close(FILE);
 my $count=0;
 my $line;
 foreach $line(@lines)
 {
  $count++;
  if($line =~ /.*$arr[0]/)
  {
   print LOG "$arr[0] found in $file at line number $count\n";
  }
  if($line =~ /.*$arr[1]/)
  {
   print LOG "$arr[1] found in $file at line number $count\n";
  }
  if($line =~ /.*$arr[2]/)
  {
   print LOG "$arr[2] found in $file at line number $count\n";
  }
 }
}
close(LOG);

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file1.txt 
ansh
batra
perl
postgres
apache
monks

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file2.txt 
ansh batra is in perl monks
apache 
postgres

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file3.txt 
website
monks perl website
ansh
ansh
website

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output.txt 
perl found in file1.txt at line number 3
monks found in file1.txt at line number 6
perl found in file2.txt at line number 1
monks found in file2.txt at line number 1
website found in file3.txt at line number 1
perl found in file3.txt at line number 2
monks found in file3.txt at line number 2
website found in file3.txt at line number 2
website found in file3.txt at line number 5

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thanks!!!
ansh batra

In reply to Re: Searching through a word file using an array element by ansh batra
in thread Searching through a word file using an array element by coldwish

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