#! perl -slw
use strict;

my @numbers = qw[
    76.8 77.0 77.2 77.4 77.6 77.8  78.0  78.2 78.4 78.6 78.8
    79.0 79.2 79.4 79.6 79.8 80.0  80.2  80.5 80.7 80.9 81.1
];

my @small = qw[ 78.6  78.8 79.0 80.9 77.0 ];

my $i=0;

$i++ until $numbers[ $i ] == $small[ 0 ];

@small = @numbers[ $i .. ( $i + $#small ) ];

print "@small";
__END__

P:\test>test
78.6 78.8 79.0 79.2 79.4

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