This is really vexxing me!!

[Tony Walker]

Hi Guys,

Here's a rouch idea of what I'm doing.. Have a logfile, a file with a list of errors and a file with corresponding line numbers.
What I want to do is search for each error, and print it if the line number its on is greater than the one thats already recorded in the file. If an error is found I want to update the line number file with it.
This is currently working fine when I declare my array of errors explicitly within the script but I don't want to do that. I want to read the errors into an array and do the same as before. When I try this using a 'slurp' it only ever find 1 of the errors!!

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks,

Tony
p.s This is my first perl script so it may look rusty/illogical and there are probably many better ways to do it:)

[Ken Penland_1]

well, I didnt work through your code to figure out what was broken...instead I just did what I would do if given the task you described...hope it helps ;P

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

Try using a hash for your errors instead of an array and you should be fine, I think.

[Tony Walker]

Thanks for the help guys. I have since found out that I had merely missed out chomp(@entry); which solved all of my problems!

Tony