Re^3: Checking MD5 of files in directory with corresponding MD5 file type

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Re^4: Checking MD5 of files in directory with corresponding MD5 file type by james28909 (Deacon) on Dec 31, 2016 at 16:24 UTC
Well, the $md5_string, as the variable name insists, contains thousands of md5s in a single string. To me it would make better sense for the lhs to be $md5 and rhs be $md5_string, which is saying "does this files `$md5` match anywhere in the long list of md5's". So logically, I would assume it would be better written as `'if ( $md5 =~ /.$md5_string./ ){'` but in previous attempts to get it to work like that it failed. maybe it is because of how I were comparing. Ill go back and retry when I get home.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Checking MD5 of files in directory with corresponding MD5 file type by Anonymous Monk on Dec 31, 2016 at 17:18 UTC
Maybe what you're thinking is `chomp(@md5_file); my $md5_re = join "\|", map quotemeta, @md5_file;` and then later `if ($md5=~/^($md5_re)$/){`. But why not use a hash?	[reply] [d/l] [select]