just to update, this is how i accomplished this.
use warnings; use strict; use Digest::MD5; my $file = "$ARGV[0]"; open (my $fh, '<', $file) or die "Can't open '$file': $!"; binmode ($fh); my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new->addfile($fh)->hexdigest; print "\n", $file, "\n", $md5, "\n"; my @array = ('d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e', 'd6721344ed0cdc2e8a05 +4a68b7ebc365', 'cee8eb94fd83f8d534bc44bf136ebaa0'); if( $md5 ~~ @array ) { print "The MD5's match perfectly\n"; } else { print "The MD5's do NOT match\n"; } system ( 'pause' );
thanks to you all for helping me with this :)

In reply to Re^3: compare md5 from file against entire@md5 array by james289o9
in thread compare md5 from file against entire@md5 array by james289o9

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