Monks,

I'm writing a script to allow local users to quickly update tables on one of our databases. I'm storing the data in an array, and need to be able to validate each item in that array against a single regexp that's pulled from a config table on the DB.

What I'd ideally *like* to do is something along the lines of 

my @array = qw/A B C D E/;
@array =~ /ABCDE/gc or warn "Validation failure";

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but this doesn't match. I've had a good look through perlre and perlop this morning, but they offered little help for this scenario. A search here turned up Re: regexp searches over array slices, which suggests that stringifying the array would solve the problem, but this doesn't seem to work for the example above (substituting "@array" for @array).

Does anyone know of a way to achieve this? Any suggestions or advice would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance ..
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In reply to Pattern matching across an array by Tanalis

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