From: "Terry Poperszky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I am working on a bit of logic to be used in a script that copies new
> files to a temporary directory and I am stumped. Basically what I
> want to accomplish is to be able to look for the existence of a file
> name in a log file, and I am trying to use a hash to accomplish this.
>
> $directory is the listing of the current files in the directory
>
> $dir_log currently is file containing the same information as
> $directory.
>
> I am trying to see if the elements of $directory exist as keys in the
> hash, but it isn't working.
>
> open MYFILE, "<dir_log";
>
>
>
> while (<MYFILE>) {
>
> $dir_log{chomp($_)} = 1;
chomp() doesn't return what you seem to think. You have to change the
line above to
chomp(); $dir_log{$_} = 1;
Jenda
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