Hi, I'm trying to write a script to "invert" an alias database file. I mean, I want to generate a list where the key is the name of the user, and the value is the list of the aliases this user is involved into. Something like /etc/group file, as an example.
I was wondering how could I use hashes and arrays to store these information. The next step is to parse each item (key=username), open each user's mailbox and look for @alias in any '^To:' line At this point, the script is: ============================= #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; open (ALIASES,'/etc/aliases') or die ("Cannot open /etc/aliases for input: $!"); my (@dest_users); while(<ALIASES>) { next if(/^[\s]*$/); next if(/^[\s]*#/); next if(/:include:/); chomp; my ($alias,$realusers)=split(/:/,$_); #print $aliases."\n"; $realusers =~ s/[\s]//g; @dest_users=split(/,/,$realusers); my ($destination); #print "ALIAS: $alias\n"; foreach $destination (@dest_users) { #print "==>$destination\n"; # HELP NEEDED HERE! } } ============================= I'm not used to manage perl hashes as I did in multidimensional arrays in PHP. Is it possible to store an array in a hash item? And how shold I do that? Which is the way to recall the value? TIA Mariano -- ----------------------------- Mariano Cunietti System Administrator Enter S.r.l. Via Stefanardo da Vimercate, 28 20128 - Milano - Italy Tel. +39 02 25514319 Fax +39 02 25514303 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.enter.it - www.enterpoint.it ----------------------------- Gruppo Y2K - www.gruppoy2k.it -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>