You were right I need to match the fourth element against each of the records. I added the code you suggested and no value was returned I decided to do a check and I did this: 

foreach my $records (@merged_array) {
    my @elements = split /,/, $records;

        print $elements[0];

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The Output from this was:  "John Doe"John Doe"John Doe"John Doe"John Doe

I realized that some of the fields themselves had commas within and that I couldn't consistently get the field I wanted by "print18" in this case So back to the drawing board for the next few minutes

In reply to Re^2: Why is the following instance of Matching using an array element not working by MyJeweledPerls
in thread Why is the following instance of Matching using an array element not working by MyJeweledPerls

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