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in reply to Finding problem with finding keywords in arrays / files

This probably isn't THE most efficient way to do this but it does what you are trying to achieve.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; open(DATA, "data.txt") or die "Error opening 'data.txt' $!\n"; my @data = <DATA>; open(KEYWORDS, '<', "keyword.txt") or die "Error opening 'keyword.txt' + $!\n"; my @keywd = <KEYWORDS>; close DATA; close KEYWORDS; foreach my $data ( @data ) { chomp($data); foreach my $keyword (@keywd) { chomp($keyword); if ( $data =~ /$keyword/i ) { print "Match \$data = $data and \$keyword = $keyword\n"; } } }