Dear Monks,

My heavenly ambitions are embedded as comments in the following code. Can anyone suggest a very tidy and short way of fulfilling these ambitions? 


foreach (my @tables){

    my $table_name = $_;


    #list of all table names
    ######  Hash out excluded _tables here  ######

    # I would like code here that only allows the following 3 variable
+ assignments to occur when the tables names are not in an array that 
+lists tables that are excluded from all schemas (this array is not sh
+own here).


    my $Table_1 = "Table_name_A";
    my $Table_2 = "Table_name_B";
    my $Table_3 = "Table_name_C";



    #close list of all table names

    if (my $table_name = $Table_1){

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20031111 Edit by castaway: Changed title from 'One liner'

In reply to Find array duplicates by Win

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