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Re: grepping arrays

by George_Sherston (Vicar)
on Jun 21, 2003 at 21:52 UTC ( [id://267875]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to grepping arrays

I think the main thing going wrong is that your first argument needs to be a block of code rather than a scalar. grep works by running the block of code for each element in the array and returning the number of times it was true (or, if you did @output = grep... it gives you the list of elements from your input array for which it was true... but you don't care about that).

So this
if(grep($username =~ m/\b$_\b/, @ignore)) { print "That didn't quite work"; }
... may do what you want. (the \bs are so you only catch whole words).

§ George Sherston

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