Yet another way to do this, without creating a hash lookup would be to just go through each and keep track of what index your on when you find what you are looking for.
May be better suited if you are dealing with very large arrays. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl5.6.0
use strict;

my $index_of_item;
my $item = q{d};

for ( qw| a b c d e f g | )
{
    ( $_ eq $item ) ? last : $index_of_item++;
}

print qq{Index of [$item] is [$index_of_item]\n};

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Wonko

In reply to Re: Determing the indice of an array by Wonko the sane
in thread Determing the indice of an array by Anonymous Monk

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