I guess I'm not making much sense due to rushing. But the idea is, that I want to populate a new array from the result of grepping another array based on the contents of a given field.
I'm not sure if using grep is a better choice than stepping thru the old array using a loop(foreach, etc) and splitting the individual records using split and then pushing the matching records into the new array if the given field matches what I'm looking for. But it seems more succinct.

Details:
I have a file that has 21 fields and 100's of records. I've sucked that file into an array (@recs), and I want any records(elements) from the @recs array in a new array(@goodrecs) that have a given email address in the 4th field. Each record(element) in the array @recs is ":" delimited. You could think of it like reading a passwd file into an array:

open(FH, "<passwd") or die $;
my @recs = <FH>;
etc....

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so what I'd like to do is something like:

my @goodrecs = grep(/^.*?:{3}foo@foobar.com/, @recs);

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This does not work. But That's the idea.

In reply to Re: grep fields by sweetblood
in thread grep fields by sweetblood

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