On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Sudarshan Raghavan wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Daniel David wrote: > > > Hi, > > I couldn't seem to find a built-in function for finding the index > > of an element in an array...so I wrote this one: > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > # position_of returns the position of a string in an array of strings, > > # and -1 if the string is not a member of the array. > > For an 'is it present' kind of operation a hash might be a better option. > You will have explain as to what you need this for to decide that? Store > your values as hash keys and a simple if (defined $hash{$value}) would do.
Sorry, that should be if (exists $hash{$value}) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]