Hello,
Yet another newbie question. I have a file, each line is a pipe delimited list (user
name and password). I want to open the file, search through each line using the first
entry as a key (so this may turn into a question about hashes, but I am not sure). If
I get a positive result I want to execute some logic, if not then bail out. My
confusion is my inability to properly search through each line. If I open the file and
read it into an array I get each line as an element of the array, not what I wanted.
ex:
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
my $path = "D:/crap/names.txt";
open(FILE, $path) or die ("Couldn't open file - !$\n");
@array = <FILE>;
close (FILE) or die ("Couldn't close file - !$\n");
print $array[0];
This prints the first element of the array - name|value. What I want is to be able to
search for a name then if I have a name match perform some operations (comparing the
value with a var). I need to be able to search through the name array elements for a
sub-set of the array elements. Make sense?
I suspect I will need to put the data into a hash but I do not know how to convert an
array where elements = name|value into a hash = key|value.
I am certain that there is an easy solution to this but my n00biness is preventing me
from seeing it. Suggestions? Thanks in advance!
Eric
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