"Lara J. Fabans" wrote:
> Hi, perl-friends,...
Hi Lara,
You said:
> I had a while loop to search through each of the keys & values, but the problem is
> that it doesn't break out of the while loop, and the wrong value gets set as $myID;
Look at your words, thenlook at your code:
> #while(my ($key, $value) = each %categories )
Since you know that one of your stopping ocnditions is to have the value == $ccid, AND
you also know that prudence demands that you check to make sure that your hash line
returns a value before you try to use that value, the and operator is called for:
while(my ($key, $value) = each %categories and !($value == $ccid)) {
Joseph
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