Hi Monks,

Looking on comments to improve my Perl skills. I am revising a script that we use to validate Autosys JIL (Job Insertion Language) files before they are promoted to production. One of the rules is that if insert_job is in the record set then owner must be in the same record. insert_job and owner are on separate lines of the record.

What I have done in the past was if I found insert_job set a flag varable to 1 and if the owner value was found in the record, set the varable to 0. Then if flag eq 1 at the end of the record, raise a error.

Thinking now to put the record into a hash and if $hash{insert_job} exists, then $hash{owner} exists or raise error.

Any other sugesstions? Not looking for full blown solutions, just ideas. We keep adding tests to this script, so I want to make sure I do something that allows for flexability

In reply to Testing if A is in a record, The B must be in the Record by cutter

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