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Originally Posted by KevinADC
It will return 1 (true) or 0 (false). But it is not very efficient because it has to check every element of the array. A for/foreach loop should be more efficient and could be way more efficient in some circumstances. For example:
- @array = 0..1000000000;
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$p = 0;
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for (@array) {
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if ($_ == $p) {
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print "true";
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last;
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}
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}
that will be much faster than:
- if (grep {$_ == $p} @array) {
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print "true";
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}
thanks for the suggestion...I asked for that as it was not working for me with the code I mentioned....
Anyway I will be using the for loop....
