Re^2: searching through array for multiple patterns

Hi Presently the code searches through each line looking for the pattern and prints success statement if it finds in a line and failure statement if it does not find it (for each line). I want it to either print success or failure statement once for the searching of the whole array. thanks

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Re^3: searching through array for multiple patterns by cdarke (Prior) on Jul 16, 2009 at 11:14 UTC
I'm with you, in that case just set a flag if the element is found, then break out of the loop at once (no point in continuing to search): `my $found = 0; foreach (@commands_run){ if($_ =~ m/clock/) { $found = 1; last; } } if ($found) { print "\n Test -- found pattern -- \n" } else { print "\n Test -- did not find pattern -- \n" }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: searching through array for multiple patterns by rovf (Priest) on Jul 16, 2009 at 08:17 UTC
maybe somthing like `if(index("@commands_run",'clock') >= 0) { # string 'clock' found somewhere in array }` [download] -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply] [d/l]