Re^8: String comparison in an array

Thanks Eily for the explanation.I am going to clean my code. Meanwhile I tried this and it worked....but is this really a bad piece of code?when there is a huge file?

foreach(@keys) {
           if ( $fillarr1[14] =~ /$_/)
        {  
         #Found
}
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Re^9: String comparison in an array by Eily (Monsignor) on Aug 08, 2018 at 14:57 UTC
It will probably work most of the time. But you will get the wrong result in some cases. For example if $_ is com, and $fillarr1[14] is computer you will get a match even though the two words are not exactly the same. You will also run into trouble if $_ contains special characters. There are ways to solve those issues, but the best solution is to not have " inside $fillarr1[14]. Now either you remove them, or you try to understand how Text::CSV works and put the data into @fillarr by using it.	[reply]
Re^10: String comparison in an array by newperlbie (Acolyte) on Aug 08, 2018 at 15:03 UTC
Good. Thanks again!I will explore Text::CSV	[reply]