james289o9 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

i wrote this script and finally figured out, after hours and hours of searching, how to compare two md5 checksums: 
use warnings;
use strict;
use Digest::MD5;

my $file = "$ARGV[0]";
my $file1 = "$ARGV[1]";
open (my $fh, '<', $file) or die "Can't open '$file': $!";
binmode ($fh);

open (my $fh1, '<', $file1) or die "Can't open '$file': $!";
binmode ($fh1);

my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new->addfile($fh)->hexdigest;
my $md51 = Digest::MD5->new->addfile($fh1)->hexdigest;

print "\n", $file, "\n", $md5, "\n", "\n", $file1, "\n", $md51, "\n";

if ($md5 eq $md51) {
    print "\n", "The MD5's match perfectly", "\n";
} else { 
    print "\n", "The MD5's do NOT match", "\n";
}

system ( 'pause' );

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but what i really need to do is get the md5 from $ARGV0 and compare that against an entire predefined @md5 array. essentially the $ARGV1 will be replaced by an array. i have searched and searched how to accomplish this. Like i say, all i need to do is compare the ARGV0 md5 against an entire array of md5's. any help or input would be very much appreciated :)

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Re: compare md5 from file against entire@md5 array
by hippo (Archbishop) on Dec 04, 2013 at 13:21 UTC
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      I am curious why, if smartmatch is experimental, perlfaq4 references only with such high prominence the smartmatch solution (thanks to choroba for the link).

      --MidLifeXis

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      you sir are a life saver. i kept googling for "how to compare md5 against an entire array". and there wasnt much info :( heck, i couldnt even find that FAQ sheet you linked lol. thanks sir/ma'am
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Re: compare md5 from file against entire@md5 array
by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Dec 04, 2013 at 13:42 UTC

    Depending on the age of your perl, you may also want to look at grep.

    --MidLifeXis

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      im using active state perl. the latest build 64 bit. but i will still look into grep. thanks :)
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Re: compare md5 from file against entire@md5 array
by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Dec 04, 2013 at 14:00 UTC

    A foreach loop is also handy, e.g.: 

    my $found = 0;
foreach my $element (@array) {
  if ($element eq $md5) {
    $found = 1;
    last;  # STOP THE LOOP EARLY
  }
}

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    This is a simple, obvious strategy that should be perfectly suitable for up to a few hundred thousand MD5s on today’s hardware.

      you guys are the BOMB xD ill have to check that snippet out, this will stop searching the array if it finds a match it right? the first link helped me alot, now im comparing hashes from argv0 against my array :D
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        just to update, this is how i accomplished this. 
        use warnings;
use strict;
use Digest::MD5;

my $file = "$ARGV[0]";
open (my $fh, '<', $file) or die "Can't open '$file': $!";
binmode ($fh);

my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new->addfile($fh)->hexdigest;

print "\n", $file, "\n", $md5, "\n";

my @array = ('d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e', 'd6721344ed0cdc2e8a05
+4a68b7ebc365', 'cee8eb94fd83f8d534bc44bf136ebaa0');
    if( $md5 ~~ @array ) {
        print "The MD5's match perfectly\n";
} else {
    print "The MD5's do NOT match\n";
}
system ( 'pause' );

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        thanks to you all for helping me with this :)
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