Re: How to find the Index of an element in array?

[Richard Chycoski]

You would have to 'walk' the whole array, which is rather inefficient. 
However, depending on what else you need to do with your data, a hash 
could do better than an array:

%myhash = ('abc'=>1, 'xyz'=>2, 'mno'=>3, 'pqr'=>4, 'stu'=>5, 'sdfd'=>6);
and then 

$myhash{ 'pqr') wiil return 4.
- Richard
Mallik wrote:
I need to find the index of a particular element in array. 

For eg.,
@arr = ('abc', 'xyz', 'mno','pqr','stu','sdfd');
I want to find the index of the element 'pqr' which is 4.
Any function/code to achieve this.
Thanks in advance,
Mallik.
 

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