[ale] OT: one for the Perl Guru's

[Fletch]

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert L Harris <Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net> writes:

    Robert>  Say I have an array containing the phrases "foo bar"
    Robert> "this one" and "one more here" named @IgnoreArray.  Then I
    Robert> have lines of text being read into 3 variables.  I want to
    Robert> do something like:

    Robert>   next if (grep(/@IgnoreArray/, $text));

    Robert> What's the best syntax for this.  I can make it work if I
    Robert> were to do a for loop instead of @IgnoreArray but that's
    Robert> visibly ugly to read.

OUTER:
while( $whatever ) {

  # set sources $foo, $bar, and $baz

  for( $foo, $bar, $baz ) {
    next OUTER if grep /$_/, @IgnoreArray;
  }

}


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