From: "Mr. Shawn H. Corey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 16:29 +0000, Taylor, Andrew (ASPIRE) wrote: > > However, I also need to keep a track of which records in the array > > have > > been 'found' (so I can later identify any records that haven't). > > > > @contains_id = grep {/$rec_id/} @array; > @not_contains_id = grep { $_ !~ /$rec_id/ } @array;
Or you could use the List::MoreUtils::part(): use List::MoreUtils qw(part); my ($found, $notfound) = part {!( /a/ )} qw(asd wtdfg wrt wrt cv3rcvb e4h dfg ae wf sdf sdfga); print "Found: ", join(',', @$found), "\n"; print "Not Found: ", join(',', @$notfound), "\n"; Jenda ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/