This is how my program looks like now. I tried this but the grep here is not returning right value, its returning 1 as if its matching all the time.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
open(MATCH_PATTERN,"< temp1");
open(FILE_TO_LOOK,"< temp2");
open OF, "> temp3";

while ($m =<MATCH_PATTERN>)
{
print "reading the current text to match \n $m \n";
seek (FILE_TO_LOOK ,0, 0);
while ($l= <FILE_TO_LOOK>) {
print "reading the textline to look for match \n $l \n";
@found = grep ($m, $l) ;
$match = @found;
if ($match == 1)
{
print "now the match is \n $match \n";
print OF "#$l";
}

}
}
close FILE_TO_LOOK;
close MATCH_PATTERN;
close OF;

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