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How to find out if a value exists in array?
Do you mean that it's faster to iterate a hash than an array? Why so? -
How to find out if a value exists in array?
Well that's a pretty piece of code... I will definitely use that one. Thanks, Neil -
How to find out if a value exists in array?
thanks, but actually I only wanted to know if given value exists in an array. I would still have to iterate %found hash to find out if a given scalar exists, right? Which is no problem of course, but I have always thought that a long piece of code only for that purpose... (In perl standards... -
How to find out if a value exists in array?
I find myself doing something like this quite often: foreach(@array) { if ($_ == $value) { $found=1; last; } } if ($found) { # $value found in @array... } Is there a shorter/more elegant way to do this in perl?
