Hi monks,
My friend and colleague ChOas and I were having a little contest
here. We dared each other to write the shortest sub, returning the
index-number of the supplied element in an array
We came up with the following ...
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
sub indexArray($@)
{
my $s=shift;
$_ eq $s && return @_ while $_=pop;
-1;
}
my @array=('john','paul','ringo','george');
print indexArray('john',@array) ."\n"; # Returns 0
print indexArray('ringo',@array) ."\n"; # Returns 2
print indexArray('mick',@array) ."\n"; # Returns -1
Is anyone bored enough to participate in this silly contest?
Anything, shorter, funnier, more obfuscated ... will do and
is welcome ;-)
If you do not want to participate because you think this is too
silly and a waste of your time, then please don't, cause you're
right ! ;-)
Bye, Leon
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