In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:12:07PM +1100, Ian Fitzgerald wrote:
> > Is there a more elegant means of checking an array for the presence
> > of a variable before adding it? - grep so far does not work for me.
>
> The answer to your question is in perlfaq4 under the section
> 'How can I tell whether an array contains a certain element?", basically
> the normal way is to convert your array to a hash.
>
> You should not use grep. You also not use @parsed[2] which should be
> $parsed[2], perlfaq4 explains the difference between the two, too.
>
>
> Best wishes, James
Got it. Thankyou.
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