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At first, I thought that too. But then you were considering to use a hash.

What have you tried so far?

Abigail

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Re: Re: comparing array elements
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 21, 2003 at 09:44 UTC
    the hash backfired! so i'm using a for loop. (little success so far) my comparison operator isn't working (both arrays contain 4- letter words) and i just need to determine which words are contained in the same position in each array.

    thanks for helping!

    for (my $i =0; $i < @forward_tets; $i++)   {

           if ($forward_tets[$i] =~ $reverse_tets[$i])  {
                      print "$forward_tets[$i] \t $reverse_tets[$i]\n"
+;
           }
}

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      To compare two strings for equality, one uses eq, not =~ (although, if the words just contain letters, it would work too).

      Abigail

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        yep, but this loop seems to be comparing every position in the first array to every position in the second, not one at a time! How can I do this?
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