Re: Is item in array
On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 00:54 -0500, Mathew Snyder wrote:
Is there an easy way to determine if an item is in an array without iterating
through the array and comparing each element to the item in question?
Look up grep.
You might be wanting a hash table not an array.
Ta
Ken
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