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in thread creating an array of names

ok.. that's great. one more small question. to read through that array after. can i do: 
$i = 0;
where 12 is the size of my array. and i is an index, or is there an al
+ternative?
while($i != 12){
    if($month = $array[i]){
         print "yes it's a month\n";
}
}

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 Well there's one immediate error here, which is that you actually mean $montheq $array[i] as firstly these are strings and secondly you don't want to assign to $month!!

However you would do better with code like this: 

for $i (0..$#array) { # just in case they change the number of months 
+:)
  next unless ($month eq $array[$i]); # skip if not equal
  print "Yes its a month\n";
  last; # no need to check other months so exit loop
}

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