Re: Combining Duplicate entries in an Array

BrowserUk's approach is fine (of course!), but just to elaborate what was wrong with yours:

Your match ($AP_numClients[$x][0] =~ /$AP_numClients[$x+1][0]/) is the wrong way round. The shorter (sub)string should be on the pattern side — i.e. swap $x with $x+1 index.
You should generally quotemeta search strings in a pattern, if they contain meta-characters ("." here).
The @newArray would better be populated using push instead of with the same index ($x) that you use for the original array (as you have it, you'd get "undef" holes in the new array).

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Re^2: Combining Duplicate entries in an Array by mmartin (Monk) on Feb 22, 2012 at 20:13 UTC
Hey Eliya, thanks for your reply. Oooohh that's it... I don't know why but for some reason "push" didn't come to me as I was doing this. Maybe I shoulda got more sleep last night haha... And the "." in a pattern match I did have a line in my script on one of my many many many different attempts that did a regex search and replace, that looked for "." and replaced it with "\." but got a strange result I think. But oh well seems to be working correctly with BrowserUk's example. Great, well thanks for the clarification, I really appreciate it! Thanks Again, Matt	[reply]

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