Hey! You are trying to match a constant against a pattern got from an input string. Is that what you want? Then try what moritz suggested.

If not, change to:

if($test1 =~ m#$test#){
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But without i modifier, "abc" will never be the same as "AbC".

Of course, to be "the same" instead of just "contains", use:

if($test1 =~ m#^$test$#){
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or:

if($test1 eq $test){
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