SPUG: IndexOf in Perl?
Brian Wisti
brianwisti at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 28 15:16:50 PST 2006
--- Tanwir Habib <tanwirh at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently switched from .NET to Perl for my needs in
> bioinformatics work.
>
> Is there a way in Perl to search an array with its value to get its
> index? like java does with "IndexOf".
>
You might try the List::Util module. It's core in 5.8.
use List::Util qw(first);
...
my $index = first { $_ == $test_value } @array;
Kind Regards,
Brian Wisti
http://coolnamehere.com/
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