i am sorry. I really meant asso array ..
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Chas. Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Sharan Basappa
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is there a way to find out if an entry exists in a hash array?
> > e.g. I have a hash array and another normal array. I would like loop
> > though regular array and see if the entries defined in this array exist
> > in hash array.
> snip
>
> By hash array do you mean an array of hashes (AoH), a hash of arrays
> (HoA), or are you merging the names hash and associative array (the
> real name of hashes)? By your question I think you mean the last
> item. You can loop through the array using for and test for the
> existence of a key with exists:
>
> for my $element (@array) {
> if (exists $hash{$element}) {
> print "$element is in the hash\n";
> }
> }
>
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