my $input = ":seraphim!seraph\@Testserver-3A93D94C PRIVMSG Prsc :remove 127.0.0.1\r\n"; my @line = split ' ', $input; chomp @line; local $/ = "\r"; chomp @line; my $search = $line[4]; my @file = ("line1\n", "127.0.0.1\n"); for my $x (@file) { chomp $x; if ($x ne $search) { print "($x)\n"; } }