At 7:03 PM 10/14/00, g3pb wrote: >is there a way other then using foreach to determie if an array contains a >particular value. in AppleScript it would be > >if list contains value then > -- do stuff >end if > There's nothing quite as simple as that, but you can collapse the array into a string and check for a pattern match: if (join('', @list) =~ /$value/) { # do stuff } HTH 1; - Bruce __Bruce_Van_Allen___bva@cruzio.com__Santa_Cruz_CA__ # ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? # ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org