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I'm working on the installer code, but I don't know Perl well enough. What is a good Perl equivalent of the R statement if ( s %in% c('string1', 'string2', 'string3') ) ... I can do it with if (s == "string1" || s == "string2" || s == "string3") ... but I've got a feeling there's a better way to do it using associative

...= "string1" || s == "string2" || s == "string3") ... > > but I've got a feeling there's a better way to do it using associative > arrays. > Using association arrays, my @strings = ( 'string1', 'string2', 'string3' ); my %stringhash = (); @stringhash{@strings} = ( 0..$#strings ); if (exists $stringhash{$s}) .. I wonder if it might be more efficient using regular expression instead, if ($s =~ /^string[1-3]$/) { ... it will depends on how 'regular' the strings are, of course. Michael --__--__-- Message: 9 Date: Fr...