[mplspm]: In a sorted list [better]

[Thomas Eibner]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 04:48:04PM +0100, Thomas Eibner wrote:
> If he just wants to know if it's in there or not why go through the first
> for loop and consume that memory? (After all he says up to 2 million
> strings)
> 
> my $found = 0;
> CHECK: for (@list) {
>     if ($_ eq 'string') {
>         $found = 1;
>         last CHECK;
>     }
> }

[Not saying that Jim's solution isn't what I would have done, 'cause it
was what I was playing with last night]

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