Fellow Monks, I come to you with a question that I have already solved my way with my current knowledge.

However, I find the solution(s) slightly unperlish and thought I would get some feedback from you.

Basically I found that the index function does not DWIM in array context, like for example my @offset = index($txt, $srch);

Below are two variations I came up with that works to large extent, I think.

#!perl -w

use strict;

my $txt = 'Trying! to get! index functionality! in array context!?';
my $srch = '!';
my @offset;

my $l = -1;
@offset = map {$l += length($_) + 1  } $txt =~ /(.*?)(?:$srch)/g;
print "RegExp: ", join(", ", @offset), "\n";

@offset =();
my $ofs = 0;
while( ($ofs = index($txt, $srch, $ofs)) > 0 ) {
    push @offset, $ofs++;
}
print "Index : ",  join(", ", @offset), "\n";

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As you can see I would like it to work under strict, preferably be a "one-liner" and not require additional/temporary variables.

TIA
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In reply to Trying to get index functionality in array context by guha

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