Hi, I need a sub that finds the first occurence of a string within an array and returns a new array containing all remaining elements after this first occurance.

Here is what I had thought to be an elegant solution:

sub blah {
 my($look_for, @array)=@_;

 my (undef, @elements_we_want) = grep { $_ eq $look_for .. 1 } @array;

 return @elements_we_want;
}

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And this acually work - the first time that is.

my @a = qw(hubba bubba abba zappa);
blah("bubba", @a);   # this gives qw(abba zappa) as desired

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The problem is the global state that the f**ing flip-flop operator holds and that does not get reset on calling the sub the second time.

So my questions would be is there any elegant way to salvage the approach with the flip-flop or can someone recommend a better way of doing it?

Many thanks!

In reply to flip-flop flop by morgon

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