Hi there, I don't agree: this isn't easy code :)
unless (open){ die } else { foo } isn't easy in my opinion. I think open or die; foo; is a lot more readable.
split /|/ will split on either nothing or nothing, and will have the same effect as split //. I think you really meant split /\|/ there.
And a grep might have been a lot easier:
$found = scalar grep { /^\Q$name\|/i } <FILE>;

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But still, it's better not to read in the whole file (did you know foreach() slurps the file before processing it?)
while (<FILE>) { $found = 1 if /^\Q$name\|/i }

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Anyway... I was just trying to point out that your code wasn't as easy as you thought it was.

2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas'
Segmentation fault
2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$

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In reply to Re: Re: Duplicate data record by Juerd
in thread Duplicate data record by britney

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