Check / validate email field in subform against another form

Check / validate email field in subform against another form

On each row of a subform I want to check whether the customer's email address already exists in our database. 

FORM = Customers (this contains contact details etc including email)
MAIN FORM = Clinics 
SUBFORM = Sign-up

Something like: 
For each row in Sign-up
if(Customers[Email_customers == input.Email_sign_up].count() == 0)
{
alert "This email address does not exist in our records. Please register";


I'm not a seasoned coder so I'm getting a bit confused with rows, subrows, recs etc so I know I'm some way off with the code! Can anyone help please?