Hey Monks
I have an array with values, a hash with info on those values and a variable.
What I need is a piece of code that will cycle through the array to see if something matches the variable. If it does its info gets added to the @result_array and if not the variable itself gets added to the @result_array.
So if the variable was var1 as below the @result_array would contain "info1" however if the variable was something like var67 the @result_array would contain "var67".
my %hash ={"var1", "info1", "var2", "info2", "var3", "info3"};
my @array=("var1","var2","var3");
my $where = "var1";
my $used = 0;

foreach my $item(@array){
   if ($item eq $where)
   {
      push @result_array, $hash{$item};
      $used = 1;
   }
}
unless ($used = 1){
push @result_array, $where;
}
$used = 0;

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Thanks everybody

j o h n i r l .

Sum day soon I'Il lern how 2 spelI (nad tYpe)

In reply to Variable Selection by johnirl

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