note adrianh <blockquote><em>Now if grep were smart enough to shortcut when called in "boolean" context, then there would be no reason not to use it. Of course, "boolean" context per se won't exist until perl 6... </em?></blockquote> <p>Until then, using <code>first</code> from [cpan://List::Util] is one alternative.</p> 239992 240055