Re: Searching mixed array?

See also List::MoreUtils::firstidx

use warnings;
use strict;
use List::MoreUtils qw(firstidx);

my @fsg = (1, 2, 4, 5, qw(A B C));

printf "item with index %i in list is B\n", firstidx { $_ eq 'B' } @fs
+g;
printf "item with index %i in list is 2\n", firstidx { $_ eq 2 } @fsg;

__END__

item with index 5 in list is B
item with index 1 in list is 2
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use strict and warnings

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Re^2: Searching mixed array? by edieguez (Initiate) on Apr 27, 2011 at 02:27 UTC
Thank you very much everyone for your answers. I’ve just begun learning Perl after many years of using compiled languages such as C/C++. Although I seem to have made an elementary mistake in this case, I am very impressed at how quickly one can become productive with Perl. I am using it to do some statistical analysis in support of a few Natural Language Processing algorithms I am developing.	[reply]
Re^3: Searching mixed array? by kennethk (Abbot) on Apr 27, 2011 at 13:18 UTC
If you are performing more than very basic statistical analyses, you should take a look at Bundle::Math::Statistics and the modules it contains - it may save you a lot of effort.	[reply]