Custom search: New fields

Now that we have an array of valid fields to search through, it’s easy enough to add new ones. Go ahead and add “genre” to the list of valid fields:

@validFields = ("artist", "album", "song", "genre");

At the moment, the script doesn’t know about genre, so let’s tell the script about all of the fields the file has. Change the “split” lines to:

#split out the song information
($song, $duration, $artist, $album, $year, $rating, $ripdate, $track, $genre) = split("\t");

That’s it. Our script can now limit searches on genre as well as on artist, album, or song:

./show --artist linda --genre standard songs.txt

./show --genre video songs.txt

./show --genre spoken --song senator songs.txt