Re: Question on grep search

2003-11-16 Thread Rob Dixon
Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan wrote: > On Nov 15, Paul Harwood said: > > >push @{$names{TEST}}, $another_name > > unless grep ($another_name, @{$names{TEST}}); > > >I thought that the $another_name scalar would be pushed once a grep of > >the nested array shows that it doesn't already exist. How can I make

Re: Question on grep search

2003-11-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 11:33:15PM -0800, Paul Harwood wrote: > I am trying to push an element into a nested array, but ONLY if it > doesn't already exist. A question of this nature usually suggests that you should be using a hash instead of an array. >I thought the best

Re: Question on grep search

2003-11-16 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Nov 15, Paul Harwood said: >push @{$names{TEST}}, $another_name > unless grep ($another_name, @{$names{TEST}}); >I thought that the $another_name scalar would be pushed once a grep of >the nested array shows that it doesn't already exist. How can I make >this work? That's because you're assu