in reply to Re^2: compare md5 from file against entire@md5 array
in thread compare md5 from file against entire@md5 array

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' );
thanks to you all for helping me with this :)

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Re^4: compare md5 from file against entire@md5 array
by Jim (Curate) on Dec 05, 2013 at 02:15 UTC

    Why not just use a hash as a simple lookup table?

    This refactored version of your script prints a tab-separated list of all the files specified as arguments on the command line. The report includes a Boolean column indicating if each file's MD5 digest matches one of the digests in the lookup table:  Yes or No.

    #!perl use strict; use warnings; use autodie qw( open close ); use Digest::MD5; use English qw( -no_match_vars ); use File::Glob qw( bsd_glob ); @ARGV or die "Usage: perl $PROGRAM_NAME file ...\n"; @ARGV = map { bsd_glob($ARG) } @ARGV; local $OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR = "\t"; local $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR = "\n"; my %md5_digests_table = map { $ARG => 1 } qw( d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e d6721344ed0cdc2e8a054a68b7ebc365 cee8eb94fd83f8d534bc44bf136ebaa0 ); for my $file (@ARGV) { open my $fh, '<', $file; binmode($fh); my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new()->addfile($fh)->hexdigest(); close $fh; my $match = exists $md5_digests_table{$md5} ? 'Yes' : 'No'; print $file, $md5, $match; } exit 0;