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Coding problem

by kidd (Curate)
on Aug 07, 2002 at 16:30 UTC ( [id://188371]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

kidd has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

So I got this code:

my @active = &readMembers; my(@found); $Input{'query'} =~ s/\s/%%/gi; my @searchWords = split("%%", $Input{'query'}); foreach my $active(@active){ my $newd = lc($active); foreach my $searchWord(@searchWords){ $searchWord = lc($searchWord); push(@found, $active) if grep { /$searchWord/ } $ne +wd; } }
Here is what it does:

  • Calls the function &readMembers wich opens up a file and returns the content.
  • Takes a query string $Input{'query'} and replaces the spaces by %% and then splits it.
  • Searchs in each line of the file, for each word, if its there it pushes the whole line into the array @found

    The Problem

    When I read @found it only has the last found item...

    Could someone tell me whats wrong?

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    Re: Coding problem
    by mkmcconn (Chaplain) on Aug 07, 2002 at 17:03 UTC

      I am not sure that it's useful to perform the intermediate step of substitution. This ought to work:

      my @searchWords = split(/\s+/, $Input{'query'}); foreach my $active(@active){ my $newd = lc($active); foreach my $searchWord(@searchWords){ $searchWord = lc($searchWord); push(@found, "$active: matches '$searchWord'") if grep { /$se +archWord/ } $newd; } } __END__ prints "active: matches searchWord"

      update Because this is not supposed to be doing anything different than your sample, I suspect that your sub is not really returning an array: my guess.
      mkmcconn

    Re: Coding problem
    by Tomte (Priest) on Aug 07, 2002 at 18:05 UTC
      I second mkmcconns assumption that readMembers may not return an array, as a testrun with faked data did what it should do.

      As a second note: You fetch every $active as many times as a $searchWord matches, maybe you'll want to say something like
      (push(@found, $active) and last)if grep { /$searchWord/ } $newd;
      to fetch a line only once (Just a thought).


      regards,
      tomte
        maybe you'll want to say something like
        (push(@found, $active) and last)if grep { /$searchWord/ } $newd;

        Wow...thanks that saved me a lot of time...

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