Re: searching an array

You want grep

die "bla bla\n" unless grep { $_ eq $name } @array
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Or if you want to avoid the overhead of looking at the whole array look at first() in List::Util.

s/if/unless/ - thanks frodo72

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Re^2: searching an array by phaylon (Curate) on Jan 03, 2006 at 15:17 UTC
IIRC 'first' currently has a memleak issue. Ordinary morality is for ordinary people. -- Aleister Crowley	[reply]
Re^3: searching an array by jdhedden (Deacon) on Jan 03, 2006 at 15:43 UTC
The mem leaks are fixed in v1.18 of Scalar-List-Utils. The developers just haven't resolved the tickets yet. Remember: There's always one more bug.	[reply]
Re^4: searching an array by phaylon (Curate) on Jan 03, 2006 at 15:49 UTC
Good to know, I just remembered these issues a few weeks or months ago were talked about in #catalyst. Ordinary morality is for ordinary people. -- Aleister Crowley	[reply]