Thanks for the suggestion. I was thinking Array::Findone myeself.
While there is a findfirst function, the difference is findone knows where it is within an array, so on subsequent calls it gives subsequent elements. "sort-of" like a closure without the closure. Basically it knows from the source code context what array you are using.
# It's does something similar to this.
sub elementer(&\@;$$) {
my ($coderef,$arrayref,$start_index,$end_index) = @_;
$start_index = 0 unless $start_index;
$end_index = $#{$arrayref} unless $end_index;
return sub {
return if $start_index > $end_index;
for (; $start_index <= $end_index;$start_index++){
$_ = $arrayref->[$start_index];
if (&$coderef){
$start_index++;
return wantarray ? ($_ ,($start_index -1 ) ) : $_
+;
}
}
}
}
my @nums = (1..1000);
my $find = elementer { "$_" =~m/5$/ } @nums ;
while (my $found = $find->() ) {
# ... do something with each match
print $found,"\n";
}
-Lee
"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."
