in reply to Re^4: Finding target unspecified value
in thread Finding target unspecified value

this:
@a = (12, 18, 56, 76, 99); $in = <STDIN>; for(0..$#a){ $i = $_ if $in == $a[$_]; } $i == 0 ? print "not found\n" : print "found at $i\n";