Daniel Falkenberg wrote:
> 
> I have just created the hash that looks like this....
> 
> %users = (
>            'uucp' => '14',
>            'daemon' => '2',
>            'daniel' => '45',
>            'test2' => '45',
>            'halt' => '0',
>            'test4' => '45'
>          );
> 
> $user = "test4";
> 
> Now here I want to see if $user exists in the hash... if it doesnt then
> I want it to return an error.  What would be the best way of going about
> this?


if ( exists $users{ $user } ) {
    # the %users hash has the key $user
    ...
    }


perldoc -f exists


John
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