Tara,
Try this:
foreach $elemenet(@fooarray){
if($element eq $foo){
things_happen;
}
}
- John
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Tara Calishain wrote:
> Gentle Perl people,
>
> Sorry to bother you with this, but I can't find the answer in my Pile of
> Perl Books.
> I probably don't know enough to ask the question correctly.
>
> I know you can compare two variables:
>
> if ($foo eq $otherfoo) {things happen}
>
> What I want to know is if you can do something that compares a variable to
> every element
> in an array. For example, would something like
>
> if ($foo eq @fooarray) {things happen}
>
> work?
>
> I'm trying to say, "If the variable $foo equals any element in the array
> @fooarray things
> happen."
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tara
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