Hello!
I have an array which I read each element at a time.
Then I use the array's element as a key for a hash I have created.
If the value of the hash for the given key is correct, I stop reading the array, using 'last'.
If the value is wrong, I keep reading, using 'next'.
What I want to ask is how and where shall I place an error message that will say for example "We read the entire loop and found no matches" ? I guess I must put it somewhere after the next statements?
Imagine that I have something similar to :
foreach $a(@array)
    {
    if ($hash{$a}="correct_value")
              {print "Success"; last;}
    else
              {next;}
    }

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Any hints? Thank you in advance!

In reply to error message in the end of the array looping? by Anonymous Monk

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