I suspect you are still falling foul of blank lines or maybe unexpected line endings (Windows cr/lf line endings on a *nix system for example). The following code may be closer to what you need:

use strict;
use warnings;

open my $tempOut, '>', 'delme.txt' or die "Can't create temp file: $!\
+n";
print $tempOut <<FILE;
"ADELMAN","John","adad","Ray"

"AGAN","John","agag","Aditya"
"AHMED","John","ahah","Conor"
FILE
close $tempOut;

@ARGV = 'delme.txt';

while(<>){
    chomp;
    s/"//g;
    my ($username,$color) = (split /,/,$_)[2,3];
    
    next if ! defined $color;
    print "here is the username: $username\n" if "agag" =~ m/($usernam
+e)/;
}

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Prints:

here is the username: agag

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However you seem to be parsing a CSV file so really you should be using one of the modules designed for that task such as Text::CSV.

Oh, and you really should use warnings in addition to strict!

True laziness is hard work

In reply to Re^2: scoping problem? by GrandFather
in thread scoping problem? by rocroc

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