Help with regexp

[digital_storm]

Hello

I want to minimize connections to a specifik application so I use a command that shows all available paramteres and store that value in a paramter called $status

Now I want to control if some values exist in my $status doing:

$dothis #defined and is what I'm searching for

if ($status=~ m/$dothis(.*)\n/) {
@response=split(":",$status);
$setw=@response[1];
} else {
$setw="Ingen inmatning gjord";
}

The information is stored on the format

aaaaaaaaaaaa : b
cccccccccccc : d

so I want to control each row and if the value exists I will get current row and use split(":",$currentrow) to get my value. But when I'm using the syntax above webbserver freezes like itsgoing in a non stoping loop.


What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

/D_S