RegEx Matching, Loop Breaking...

[rardoe]

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);