in reply to find position of element of array

To find the index of an element within an array, you can grep. 

my ($index) = grep { $array[$_] eq 'c' } 0..$#array;

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Then just subtract one from $index. (Watch out of $index happens to be zero though.)

Update: Forgot list context for $index.

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Re^2: find position of element of array
by spatterson (Pilgrim) on Nov 07, 2005 at 12:26 UTC
    Wow, and all this time I've been doing variations of 
    for (my $i = 0; $i < @foo; ++$i) {
    if ($foo[$i] eq $match_element) {
        return $i;
    }
}

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    just another cpan module author
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