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in reply to grepping arrays

Your problem is that you misunderstand the way perlfunc:grep works.

As a hint, this line

if(grep($username, @ignore) || grep($askname, @ignore)) {

Should probably look something like this

if(grep( /$username/, @ignore) || grep( /$askname/, @ignore)) {

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