I have tried to get this working, but have been unsuccessful. I am a noob to programming and perl so patience would be appreciated.

The search NEVER matches. I made sure the case is exactly the same in the doc and still no luck

Here is the code

 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;

open(FH, "Wachterpdf2txt.txt") or die "We have a problem: $!";

my @invoiceSearch = ("phone", "hunt", "dial", "tone", "static", "18d",
+ "system", "voice", "numbers", "voicemail", "MLX201", "programming", 
+"extension", "processor", "block", "mls", "programmed", "rollover", "
+extension", "partner", "crosstalk", "merlin", "ringing");

my $regexStr="^static\\s+\\w+\\s+(" . (join "|",map quotemeta,@invoice
+Search) . ")\\W.*";

print "$regexStr\n\n";

my $regexStr_rr = qr{$regexStr}i; # or "cloister" the 'i' in $regexStr

while(<FH>) {
   chomp;
    my ( $hit )
        = $_ =~ /$regexStr_rr/;
  
    if ($hit) {
        print "Beatle method \"$hit\" found on this line: $_\n";
    }
    else {
        print "No Beatle method found on this line: $_\n";
    }
}
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What I can't seem to find anywhere is what the ^static statement means in the Regex variable. I am pulling in a text document that was converted from .pdf I have stripped out all spaces and most punctuation. The text document looks fine to me.

Any help would be appreciated!