The answers above are all important to your effort to learn Perl. Pay close attention to that advice. But if I understand your latest node correctly, there's another aspect you need to learn about: regular expressions.

This is not the spot for a full regex tutorial but it appears to me that you need to use a capture to do what you want:

if ($name =~ /(Cobray)/){
say "$1";}

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The parentheses tell the regular expression engine to capture their content (if that content exists in the line (of 3, comma-separated names, in this case) to the special variable, $1.

Just a side note: I've written the code this way to stay close to your original... and to make the illustration fairly clear. But good practice calls for an intermediate step; assigning $1 to a named variable that won't be transient nor have the properties (esp. durability) of $1 that make it retain a prior match, if a new attempt fails.

In reply to Re: Can't get the desired output.. by ww
in thread Can't get the desired output.. by astronogun

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