Re^2: searching a list

I would also suspect that List::Util has something useful

yeah, first.

use List::Util qw( first );
my $found = defined first { $_ eq 'at' } @s;
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By the way,
my $ct = scalar ...
is the same as
my $ct = ...

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Re^3: searching a list by McDarren (Abbot) on Jun 27, 2006 at 04:49 UTC
By the way, my $ct = scalar ... is the same as my $ct = ... Yeah, true... but I think some people (myself included) adopt the practice (in these sorts of situations) of using scalar anyway, just so as to remove any doubt about the intention. Personally, I think it's not a bad practice, and I'm not aware of any performance hit - or is there? :)	[reply]