Dear Monks,

I made this script to find where a value is along an array. This code is pretty explicit and works as expected, but I am looking for advice on improving its efficiency or elegance before implementing it further. 

use strict;
use warnings;
use List::Util qw(max min);

my @array = (11, 23, 40, 52, 67);
my ($minarray, $maxarray);
my $lookup = $ARGV[0];
my ($prev, $curr);

$minarray = min(@array);
$maxarray = max(@array);

foreach my $i (@array){
    
    if ($lookup < $minarray or $lookup > $maxarray){
         print "$lookup is out of bounds\n"; 
         last;
    }
    if ($i == $lookup) {
        print "Exact match $i\n";
        last;
    }
    unless ($prev) {
        $prev = $i;
        next;
    }
    if ($i < $lookup) {
        $prev = $i;
        next;
    } else {
        $curr = $i;
    }
    if ($curr > $lookup) {
        print "Value $lookup, is between $prev and $curr\n";
        last;
    }
}

# >perl lookupArray.pl 27
#  Value 27, is between 23 and 40

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Thanks and best regards

Update: Minor edit to correct as per BillKSmith's observation.
And many thanks to all for the nice variants and improvements offered. Cheers!

In reply to Improve my lookup script by jjap

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