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.

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