in reply to find position of element of array

TIMTOWDI, and List::MoreUtils offers another solution: 
use List::MoreUtils qw(firstidx);

my @array = ("a","b","c","d");
my $index = firstidx { $_ eq "c" } @array;
my $wanted = $array[$index - 1];

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Re^2: find position of element of array
by Perl Mouse (Chaplain) on Nov 07, 2005 at 10:43 UTC
    Note that this code will assign "d" to $wanted if searching with "a".
    Perl --((8:>*
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