function for finding the index of an element in an array?

[Daniel David]

Hi,
I couldn't seem to find a built-in function for finding the index
of an element in an array...so I wrote this one:

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#  position_of returns the position of a string in an array of strings,
#  and -1 if the string is not a member of the array.

sub position_of {
   my ($x,@y) = @_;
   foreach $z (0..$#y) {
      if (@y[$z] eq $x) {
         return ($z);
      }
   }

   return -1;
}
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it works.... but somehow i feel there's a built in function for this

thanks.

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