Hi,
I try to search an array to see if element exists and then act upon it if it do.
My Perl not so good and this not working as I thought
The array contains a list of pid's and is built via Oracle::dbd call like this . 
my $xpid = 1234;
@procs = $dbh->selectall_arrayref("select spid from v\$process");
if ( grep $xpid, @procs ) {
   print "Pid is in use : $xpid\n";
}

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This prints Pid in use for all pids regardless of whether it matches or not.
Also the pid to search for can change, so the search will be done multiple times (the code above is inside a while loop).
How do I search the procs array for a matching pid, is grep not the right thing to use ? Should I use hash instead of an array, if so how can this be done ?
Thanks for help

In reply to search an array by Anonymous Monk

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