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How to Grep array element substrings using Hash element patterns?
Thank you all for your help. I really appreciate it. The following got me where I needed to be... foreach $an ( keys %GrepPatternHash ) { chomp($an); @GrepResults = grep (/$an/, @TargetList); Mark. -
How to Grep array element substrings using Hash element patterns?
Rather than posting the actual data at this time, how about this: filea contains... abc def ghi fileb contains... abc zabcd yza When my original script is run, it returns: abc With Kevin's suggested modification, grep (/$GrepPatternHash{$_}/, @TargetList); ...it returns... zabcd yza The... -
How to Grep array element substrings using Hash element patterns?
Thanks Kevin. I tried your suggestion and it returned inverse results to what I was getting, i.e. I got everything back except precise matches. It behaved as though I had specified ! like so: grep (! $GrepPatternHash{$_}, @TargetList); So, for kicks, I tried your suggestion again, but with... -
How to Grep array element substrings using Hash element patterns?
Hi. I'm new to perl, and not expert in any particular programming language. I've written a script that does the following: 1) Takes a list in FileA as input to a hash (%GrepPatternHash). 2) Takes a list in FileB as input to an array (@TargetList). 2) Uses the elements of that hash as the...
