In my program I am checking wether a emailid exists in a list I have in the complete_list a string like $complete_string="<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>";
# that is a string of emailids sorted
Now I want to find out if another ID "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" exists in this list
How is it possible to optimize the search given that the complete list string is sorted in order
The alternative I am considering is
1) Create a hash array with each of the ids as keys and just use the exits function
like
my %hash=();
while($complete_list=~/(\<.*?\>)/g){ $hash{$1}=1 };
....
if(exists($hash{$emailid})) {
# FOUND id in string
}Is this the best way
Is there no way directly to use the string Thanks Ram
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