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this works:

#!perl 

use strict;
sub iA{join('',map{$_ if($_[0]eq$_[$_])}(1..$#_))-1}

my(@array) = qw(foo bar crap stuff);
print "$_: ".iA($_,@array),"\n" for(qw(foo dolsman crap));
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just my two cents :)

lindex

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in thread Shortest -return index of element in array- sub by leons

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