in reply to Re: find a string in an array of arrays
in thread find a string in an array of arrays

but then your dot would match any character

You could do \Q...\E to quote the metacharacter.

my ( $grepresult ) = grep { $_->[0] =~ m{\Q$SearchStr\E} } @cdata;

Cheers,

JohnGG

Update: I also missed the scalar/list problem, parentheses added. lodin ++