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

[Jerry Yu]

	not sure it'd be the best, here is how I deals with it

	my $toIgnoreExpr = join '|', @IgnoreArray;
	next if ($text =~ /$toIgnoreExpr/i );

	'grep' operates on a list/array.

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Robert L. Harris wrote:

#
#
# Say I have an array containing the phrases "foo bar" "this one" and
#"one more here" named @IgnoreArray.  Then I have lines of text being
#read into 3 variables.  I want to do something like:
#
#  next if (grep(/@IgnoreArray/, $text));
#
#What's the best syntax for this.  I can make it work if I were to do a
#for loop instead of @IgnoreArray but that's visibly ugly to read.
#
#
#:wq!
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