Monks,

I'm a relative newbie and I'm in a bind. I can't seem to get this simple foreach loop with nested if statement to work. I e-mailed the monks a couple weeks ago and thought i had an answer but i guess i was wrong because it's not working now. Why does this work... 

@companies = ("FOO,BAR");

foreach $company(@companies) {

                 print "$company"
         }

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printing out: FOO, BAR.

but if i want to determine if either is present in webpage before printing out by using a nested if statement...

@companies = ("FOO,BAR");

$url = "http://www.yadyadyada.com";  

$content = get($url);

foreach $company(@companies) {

if  ($content =~/$company/smi){

                 print "$company"
         }
 
 }

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it runs, but doesn't print out anything ... even though I know that one of the two companies is on the webpage.

I already tried all match controls (i.e. g,m,s,i in all combinations) to no avail.

thanks for any tips,

cdherold

In reply to If statement in Foreach loop by cdherold

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