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From:
Mahendra Thacker
Date:
March 29, 2002 16:09
Subject:
searching an array
Message ID:
20020330000911.52316.qmail@onion.perl.org
Hi,
A question from a relative newbie.
How does one search an array of numbers for a number?
(without using foreach; is there any function?)
Say, I want to do something like this:
==
$a = 5;
@arr = ( 7 9 3 6 );
if ( seach( $a, @arr ) ) {
print "Found $a in the list \n";
} else {
print "Did not find $a in the list\n";
}
==
TIA,
Mahendra Thacker
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