Chris Zampese wrote: > > Hello everyone, Hello,
> I have a variable $myvar (an email address), and > I would like to open a simple text file which contains > email addresses (one on each line) and check to see if > the address in $myvar is in there, if it is not, then > append it o the end of the file, and if it is, then > close the file and carry on with the rest of the script. > I have tried using while (<FILEHANDLE>){}, > but I am not really sure what to put in the brackets? open FILEHANDLE '+< email.txt' or die "Cannot open email.txt: $!"; while ( <FILEHANDLE> ) { chomp; die "$myvar found\n" if lc $myvar eq lc $_; } print FILEHANDLE "$myvar\n"; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]