Monks, I've boiled my problem down to the simplest following code: 
$gw="abcdefgh";
if ($gw =~ m/abc/ig){
    print "abc\n";
}
if ($gw =~ m/cde/ig){
    print "cde\n";
}
if ($gw =~ m/defgh/ig){
    print "defgh\n";
}
if ($gw =~ m/gh/ig){
    print "gh\n";
}
if ($gw =~ m/fg/ig){
    print "fg\n";
}

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Can someone explain to me why the above code basically only prints every other time. For instance, the above only spits out: 
abc
defgh
fg

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It seems to me as if the above should print: 
abc
cde
defgh
gh
fg

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Is there something I'm missing? I've got a script that checks the name of device and based on parts of its name I then know the devices function and need to run other things against that device. And it is completely possible that anywhere from 1 -5 of the if statements could match the device name and need additional code run in my script. The only work around I've come up with at this point is to basically say: 
$gw1, $gw2, $gw3, $gw4, $gw5 = $gw;
if ($gw =~....
if ($gw1 =~....
if ($gw2 =~....
etc...

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It also doesn't matter if you change the order of the if statements, it will always match the 1st, skip the 2nd, match the 3rd, skip the 4th, etc. Thanks and I look forward again to the wisdom!!

In reply to Multiple if statements matching part of one variable problem by jmclark

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