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jgatrell42 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have an array of arrays that looks like the following:
my @cdata = (["test1.txt", "Subject2", 200], ["test2.txt", "Subject2", 300], ["test3.txt", "Subject1", 600], ["test4.txt", "Subject4", 900], ["test5.txt", "Subject6", 200], );
Now I want to be able to look for the file name. Since the list can get rather long I decided maybe incorrectly to use grep.
my $SearchStr = "test2.txt"; my $GrepResult = grep(/$SearchStr/,@cdata);
Nothing is found. Now if I change the array to a simple array of file names it works great. That lead me to believe that the way I am referencing @Config is incorrect. I have not been able to get this to work. Thanks JGatrell