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I'm trying to write an urlgrabber and I thought it would be nice to include a sort of blacklisting system with it. Now the code for the grabbing/webscraping works perfectly. But I'm having problems with the blacklisting system.

I have 2 arrays. One (@sites) contains the grabbed urls, the other one (@blacklist) contains the blacklisted keywords. Now the code I came up with does "kinda" spot the blacklisted urls, but is clumsy, slow, inefficient and has to be filtered.

Could anyone point out an easier (and faster) way?

#!/usr/bin/perl # example blacklisting @sites = ( "http://www.rtfm.com", "http://www.alottatax.com", "http://www.kingdom.com/cgi-bin/script.pl" ); @blacklist = ( "cgi", "blabla", "testme" ); foreach $site (@sites) { &blacklist(); } sub blacklist { foreach $blacklist (@blacklist) { if ( $site =~ m/$blacklist/gi ) { print "$site blacklisted - $blacklist\n"; } else { print "$site ok\n"; } } }

Teabag
I'm sure there's more than one way, but /me just needs one anyway - Teabag

In reply to Filtering one array using another array by teabag

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