in reply to To Pattern Match or not to Pattern Match

In your else block, you need to add 'last;' to exit the inner loop and go to the next element in the outer loop. 
else {
  print "Name does not exist\n";
  last;
}

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That should prevent that line from printing 10 times.
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mlh2003

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Re^2: To Pattern Match or not to Pattern Match
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 04, 2005 at 00:14 UTC
    I think the problem here is that it loops through the 1st 10 names in @names and since none of those 10 matches it prints out "Name does not exist" 10 times. I need it to loop through all 20 strings in @names and if it doesnt find a match then print "Name does not exist" only once, buts only my guess.
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