So I have the below code. I know there are some extra bits, but it is not behaving how i would like. basically I have a file i am reading in, then a second file read in, and looping through and saying that if a line in XML contains anything from a line in DOMAIN, set a variable to nothing and exit the innermost loop. But the problem is that nothing ever matches. If I replace the $cleanedDomain line with a literal, it matches. The XML file is xml and the domains file is just a list of domain names... It looks right to me but i think i am missing something.
use strict; use warnings;
my $linexml;
my $cleanedXML;
my $cleanedDomain;
open (XML, 'domainList.xml');
while (my $xmlline = <XML>) {
$linexml = $xmlline;
$cleanedXML = quotemeta $xmlline;
open (DOMAINS, 'dead_domains.txt');
while (my $domainline = <DOMAINS>) {
$cleanedDomain = quotemeta $domainline;
if ($cleanedXML =~ m/$cleanedDomain/) { $linexml = ''; last;}
}
close (DOMAINS);
open (MYFILE, '>>new_domainList.xml');
print MYFILE "$linexml";
close (MYFILE);
}
close (XML);