Re: Escaping characters in the array

particle wrote: see quotemeta

Cheer Particle. quotemeta is a great tool to add to my growing arsenal. ;)
After quoting the meta characters, I found my logic was all wrong so I started rewriting.

tadman wrote:

The real problem seems to be the way you are using your arrays. You're not indexing correctly....

Better still to just iterate and forget the index unless you actually need it...

As an explanation, the \Q starts "escaping" special characters, the \E stops...

my @new = `cat /path/to/some/file`;
foreach my $new (@new) {
  my $args = `rpm -qa | grep $new`;
  print $new if ($args =~ m/^$/);
}
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Sanity checking in relation to packages versions. Older version "new" packages should not be installed
Using a hash for the values in @new. This is because when I query an RPM package, I cannot query with the extension in tack, otherwise nothing will match. For example:

Search for: glibc-2.2.5-34
Download: glibc-2.2.5-34.i386.rpm

BTW: ++ all around guys for the great ideas!

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