I'm trying to automatically find the index of a certain array value by searching through an array with a for loop. This results in either the for loop repeating each index, or when I use 'last' or 'exit' the index counter doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated. Here's a simple code for what I've been attempting: Ideally, I want my output to be: F is at index 5 


#!/usr/bin/perl

#use strict;
#use warnings;

my @text = qw/A B C D E F G H I J/;


for my $element (@text){
    if ($element = "F")    {
    print "$element is at index: $index_number\n";
    $index_number++;
    }
    #last if ($element = "F")
}

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Either prints the text 10 times, each with different index or if I use last, prints once (good) but doesn't give an index (bad).

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