Your code as posted can't run because you're using some kind of fancy quotes that Perl does not support:

&find (‘Q', @fsg)

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If you used the warnings pragma, Perl would have told you that you're using the wrong operator for string comparisons. See perlop about eq and == and the difference between the two.

Also, if you plan on doing (much) more than one search, using a hash is likely faster:

sub find {
    my ($needle,@hay) = @_;
    my $position = 1;
    my %haystack = map { $_ => $position++ } @hay;
    return $haystack{ $needle }
};

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If you look at List::Utils, there is the first subroutine, that also does what your find() subroutine does.

In reply to Re: Searching mixed array? by Corion
in thread Searching mixed array? by edieguez

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