Finding an element in an unordered list

[rathankar]

Dear friends
i would like to know how do get back the keys in hashes using a print statement
and also how do we get the number of elements in a list and their indexes
eg: if i have

print (("nothing",255, 123, 555)[2]); it prints 123

but now that i want to know which element in the list is 123?. is there a way out to do it
please reply

[pbmods]

Heya, rathankar. Welcome to TSDN!

Please use CODE tags when posting source code:

[CODE=perl]
Perl code goes here.
[/CODE]

I'm going to go ahead and move this thread to the Perl forum, where our resident Experts will be better able to help you out.

[numberwhun]

Dear friends
i would like to know how do get back the keys in hashes using a print statement
and also how do we get the number of elements in a list and their indexes
eg: if i have

print (("nothing",255, 123, 555)[2]); it prints 123

but now that i want to know which element in the list is 123?. is there a way out to do it
please reply

First, I completely back up pbmods with regards to the code tags. They are a best practice here on TSDN and should always be used to enclose any posted code.

As for your issue, you will want to read about the keys function that comes with Perl. That is how you access the keys in a hash.

And while you are there, you may want to read the rest of the wonderful documentation they have their, including the perlfunc page, which goes over the standard Perl functions.

Regards,

Jeff

[KevinADC]

Dear friends
i would like to know how do get back the keys in hashes using a print statement

print  keys %hash;

and also how do we get the number of elements in a list and their indexes
eg: if i have

print (("nothing",255, 123, 555)[2]); it prints 123
 

Yes, index 2 is the third element (123) because perl arrays start at index 0 (zero).


The number of elements in an array:

my $n = @array;
print $n;

but now that i want to know which element in the list is 123?. is there a way out to do it
please reply

You have to loop through the list/array and count where you are in the list/array to know the index number. There is no builtin function in perl5 to do that but there might be in perl6, which is still in development.

Also read the documents Jeff linked you to.