This should work:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my @users = ("Andrew", "Andrews", "Eric", "Andy", "Test");
my $param = "AnDr";    # what to search for

foreach (@users) {
  print "$_\n" if /$param/i;
}

__OUTPUT__
Andrew
Andrews
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Update: Check the references that were mentioned in the above post. You need to read up on the m// operator. Also check this post for a list of some of the modifiers.

Update2: Your thread title was "Search and Replace. After you match the username to the search pattern, if you are wanting to replace it, you should also look into the s/// operator.

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