Search problem: I have several variables in a data file... I have a search function that looks at one of the variables and then checks two other searches in another variable if the first one is present... Another words... my data file has $class, $date and $desc columns... I need to do a search on the $class variable and check it against two different search criteria's in the second variale... Here's the code for the search problem: 

<form action="$ENV{'SCRIPT_NAME'}" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="search">

<input type="text" name="searchstring" size="18">

<select name="searchprice" size="1" value="price">
<select name="searchtype" value="keyword" size="1">



if($class =~ /$form{'searchtype'}/ eq 'keyword' and ($desc =~ /$form{'
+searchstring'}/i) and ($desc =~ /$form{'searchprice'}/) || ($desc =~ 
+/$form{'searchstring'}/i) and ($desc =~ /$form{'searchprice'}/))

{print "$desc\n";

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Let me know if you need more of the code... I basically need to compare (3) different events before printing the $desc. ______SysAdm

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