On Aug 10, Tim McGeary said: >I have a file of data that I want to safety check to ensure that there >is data for each piece of the line being split. Is there a fast way to >say "If any of these are '' then write to error log"?
Assuming you store the data in an array, you can simply say: if (grep length == 0, @data_members) { print LOG "error: empty fields found in this dataset\n"; } Something to that effect should work. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan % How can we ever be the sold short or RPI Acacia Brother #734 % the cheated, we who for every service http://japhy.perlmonk.org/ % have long ago been overpaid? http://www.perlmonks.org/ % -- Meister Eckhart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>