You can check if a key is already in a hash table with Perl's exists()
function.
Have a look at 'perldoc -f exists' for details.
Hope this helps.
-- Marcus
- Original Message -
From: "Darfler, Jim (J.E.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 8:05 PM
> Yet further question:
>
> my %this = ('A' => 'valueA', 'B' => 'valueB');
> my %is = ('A' => 'othervalueA', 'B' => 'othervalueB');
> my @array = ('this', 'is');
> my $string = "this";#will actually be user input, might also be "is"
> my $data = "A and B";
> foreach my $array (@array) {
> if ($str
