in reply to Find a value from an array in a string

Three notes:
  1. Did you remember that arrays are zero-based? Is it $field[8] you want or $field[7]?
  2. You didn't chomp() your input line, so the last field will have a newline at the end. Hey! That's my bug!
  3. You would do better with a hash for the accounts
my %skipaccount;
$skipaccount{$_} = 1 for qw(77403 77404 77406 77407 77408 77409 77411 
+77412 77413 77414 77416 77418);

later:
$suppress = 1 if $skipaccount{$fields[8]};

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Re: Re: Find a value from an array in a string
by Skyler99 (Novice) on Mar 13, 2003 at 20:32 UTC
    Dear Monk, I appreciate your help. I owe you a million. Could you tell me if there may be any other way that I could match the array number to the number located in Sequence 8 on the FT1 line.?? Thanks in advance. 
    
   while (<IN>) {

   chomp();

  if (/^(MSH)(.....)/) {
    setdelimiters($2);
  }

  @field = split /$fs/;


  if ($newblock{$field[0]}) {
    processbuffer();
  } elsif (!$partofblock{$field[0]}) {
    print STDERR "Possible error: segment=$field[0] line $.\n";
  }


  if ($field[0] eq "FT1") {
   
    if ($field[7] == $skipaccount{$_}) {

            $suppress = 1 if $skipaccount{$field[7]};

      }
    }
 
   $buffer .= "$_\n";      
}
processbuffer();


sub processbuffer {
  print OUT $buffer unless $suppress;
  $buffer="";
  $suppress = 0;
}

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MSH|^~\&|||||||||||||
EVN|||||
PID|||||||||||||||||||||
FT1|||||||77413| 
MEV|||||||||||||||||||

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      Instead of:
      if ($field[0] eq "FT1") {
    if ($field[7] == $skipaccount{$_}) {
           $suppress = 1 if $skipaccount{$field[7]};
     }
}

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      you just need:
      if ($field[0] eq "FT1") {
    $suppress = 1 if $skipaccount{$field[7]};
}

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      Of course there are a lot of ways to do it--TMTOWTDI
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