Hello, Hoping you can help me here.

I'm trying to write a perl script however am I lots of difficulty with a particular sub routine which is essentially grepping a log files, depending on which exist. I'm starting to test with just two log files, but there will be about 8 to select from in the end so hence the usage of subs.

Anyway, I' attempting to check if a 12 Log exists, if it does then assign that scalar to be used later in the loop as the array:

sub GetDecUser {
if (-e $LOGFILE12) {                     
 $LFILE = \@arr12;      # if the 12 log exist, use it         
} else {
 $LFILE = "\@arr10";             
# $LFILE = @arr10;      # Tried this and this just seems to loop throu
+gh the whole log
      
}
print "$LFILE\n";    # this prints @arr10, so the scalar is getting po
+pulated
for $dec ("$LFILE")    # Use what ever log was found in the above if s
+tatement
#for $dec (@arr10)    # this works fine, but its not using the assignm
+ent!
 {
        if ($dec =~ /declared users/)          # match this
        {
         print "TESTING we found it: $dec\n";      # Nothing outputted
+ when I try this. 
        }
 }
}

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Many Thanks (yes I know I can do this easily in shell, but am trying to learn some perl)

In reply to Assign scalar to array by topteam

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