Apologies if this is a bit noobie, but I have been left with a short window to write a tool and I have had no experience with Perl. Very familiar with Kornshell, and so far my Perl script is going okay. However, I am struggling to get a test working correctly. Is there a simple way to test if a string does not exist in an array?
I am trying to test if some user input (a userid) is valid and error if it does not exist. Currently have the contents of /etc/passwd in an array, and can test for valid users, but all my efforts to test for invalid have failed miserably. I am on AIX, not sure on the Perl version. Current test for valid is : return 1 if (grep(/$user/,$udata)); Any help would be much appreciated. Ashley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
