You mean something like this?
---
use strict;
my @array = qw(car bus caravan bike cart);
my $lookfor = "car";
foreach my $element (@array) {
if ($element =~ /$lookfor/) {
print "Found a match!! => $element\n";
} else {
print "$lookfor doesn't match $element\n";
}
}
---
HTH
John
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Subject: grep a array element..
Hi all
within a for loop I want to grep/pattern match a variable with each array
element
what would the syntax be ??
many thanks
steve
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