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})
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