On 7 Oct 2008, at 17:01, Chris Jack wrote:
Mark Blackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrOteList::Util::first > or > List::MoreUtils::any > for older perls, perhaps.or even grep(/^$job$/, @list)
true, but I'd say a regex search is over the top for non regex searches. List::MoreUtils uses C, so that appeals the pointless optimiser in me. - Mark