Webmaster wrote:
>
> (I have attached a prototype of what I had in mind)
>
> From: "David L. Nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Yes, that is exactly what is being suggested, but the "indexof" function
> > is implicit in the attribute. Your code becomes
> >
> > print "Found It at position ${_:n}!\n"
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 09:03:39AM -0400, Webmaster wrote:
> Graham Barr Wrote:
> >Well if there ever is a way to shortcut grep this could be genera;ized
> >to
> >
> > my $index = grep { break if $_ eq $seek; 1 } @items;
>
> Wouldn't this also assume that grep return the number of times the bloc
Graham Barr Wrote:
>Well if there ever is a way to shortcut grep this could be genera;ized
>to
>
> my $index = grep { break if $_ eq $seek; 1 } @items;
Wouldn't this also assume that grep return the number of times the block was
NOT true, rather than it's current implementation of the number of
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:05:20AM -0400, Webmaster wrote:
> David Nicol Wrote in RFC 262:
> >foreach $item (@items){
> >#print "$item was at location ",$item:n,"\n";
> >print "$item was at location ${item:n}\n";
> >};
>
> What would really be nice here is an C function, similar to the
> scalar v
David Nicol Wrote in RFC 262:
>foreach $item (@items){
>#print "$item was at location ",$item:n,"\n";
>print "$item was at location ${item:n}\n";
>};
What would really be nice here is an C function, similar to the
scalar version, that returns the index of the matching entry in a list. For
instanc
This and other RFCs are available on the web at
http://dev.perl.org/rfc/
=head1 TITLE
Index Attribute
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: David Nicol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 19 Sep 2000
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Number: 262
Version: 1
Status: Developing
=head1 ABSTRACT
An attr
