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in reply to Re^4: write and read the same file not display the output
in thread write and read the same file not display the output

Hey thanks for the nice reply, but I was not aware of a difference in the regex with the parentheses (though I updated my post): It would be good if you can point it out for me, always up for learning more Perl ! :-)

print $1 if /^$name$/; #or print $1 if /^($name)$/;