Jabir Ahmed wrote: > Hello everyone, Hello,
> I have a pretty simple problem > > example : > > @a=qw( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ); > $b=5; > > now i just want to check if the value of $b i.e 5 > exists in the array @a or not > > Q 1) is there any way other than looping through the > array? To do it without looping you could store the elements as hash keys, or if the elements are sorted you could use a binary search. > Q2 ) is there any predefined function to check the > existance of the element in the array.. http://search.cpan.org/~vparseval/List-MoreUtils-0.12/ John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
