in reply to "array" search

I think you are trying to to this: 
if($self->{keys}->[$key]){
      # do something with the knowledge that we got the correct key
      # then exit out of function using this loop
}
# do something with the knowledge there is no key with that name

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Re^2: "array" search
by Sheol (Novice) on Jan 14, 2006 at 08:47 UTC

    Not quite... $key contains a name, not an index. doing $self->{keys}->[ $key ] won't work.

    I could do $self->{keys}->{$key} but I don't think that would work in the case where I might serialise the object.

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