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
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