Not very satisfying because of the need to use a 'goto' to quit the loops early, and the need to duplicate the index vars because Perl localises them to loop even if they are pre-existing vars.

I tried suggesting that the latter behaviour was a bug a while ago and got shouted down. 

#! perl -slw
use strict;

my @AoA = (
   [ '1', '2', '11' ],
   [ '3', '3', '6'  ],
   [ '6', '8', '11'  ],
   [ '0', '7',  '9'  ],
);

my @A = qw(0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 0);

my( $p, $q );
OUTER: for my $i ( 0 .. $#AoA ) {
    for my $j ( 0 .. $#{ $AoA[ $i ] } ) {
        ( $p, $q ) = ( $i, $j ) and last OUTER
            if $A[ $AoA[ $i ][ $j ] ];
    }
}
print "i:$p j:$q";

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I'm not sure why you are using the outer loop below?

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In reply to Re^3: Control loop 2D array by BrowserUk
in thread Control loop 2D array by FFRANK

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