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in fact there is a loop (in sort, map, grep) but no internal checks to escape like single match...
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Re^6: The most efficient way for searching for an element in an array?
by Discipulus (Canon) on Jan 08, 2016 at 10:39 UTC
    I dont know perl's internals but i think to those functions as 'list returner'. No loop is involved as in @array = qw(a b c); Can you brake the assignement after 'b' is reached? No. The same for map grep and sort.

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