On Dec 8, Wiggins d Anconia said: >> I did the 'in' function for seeing if one element is inside on list like. > >While I realize your question is more about creating operators, etc. >Would 'grep' not work the same as the above?
But his in() function short-circuits; grep() does not. grep() will keep going through the ENTIRE list, even if the FIRST element matches. There's always the first() function from List::Util. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
