Re: How do I find the array element directly preceeding a 'match'?

Or you could just use a for loop, and eliminate the need for multiple assignments:

for ($i=0; $i<scalar(@array); ++$i) {
    last if (matches($array[$i]));
}
$found = $array[$i-1] if ($i);
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