I like that. More of what I was looking for and in just a very few
lines.
Thanks Dale!
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 10:53 -0500, Dale Lancaster wrote:
> my @input=(1,2,3,4,3,2,1) ;
> my ($j, $i) ;
> grep { $i++ ; $j=$i-1 if $_ =~ /3/ and !$j ; } @input ;
> print $j ;