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Set by lizmat on 8 June 2022.
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deoac         $foo = '-s'; 02:11
        my @arr = < alice -bob cat -soup dog>;
 How to I determine if any elements in @arr match $foo, without looping thru the array?
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pelevesque andrewshitov.com/2019/09/09/check-...in-perl-6/ 03:30
stackoverflow.com/questions/354230...rl-6-array
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deoac But I need a partial match.  '-s' isn't an element of the array.  But an element contains it. 05:14
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CIAvash `@arr.any.&(*.contains: '-s')` 06:02
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Nahita or `@arr.grep(*.contains: $foo).so` 07:25
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lizmat m: say < alice -bob cat -soup dog>.contains('-s') 09:11
camelia Calling '.contains' on a List, did you mean 'needle (elem) list'?
True
in block <unit> at <tmp> line 1
lizmat m: say quietly < alice -bob cat -soup dog>.contains('-s')
camelia True
lizmat though this *looks* like it is following the requirement to not loop through the array 09:12
it actually does to create the Str representation
and it is actually the worst case always
m: say <alice -bob cat -soup dog>.first: *.contains('-s') 09:13
camelia -soup
lizmat m: say so <alice -bob cat -soup dog>.first: *.contains('-s')
camelia True
lizmat would be much better, as it would short-circuit as soon as it found it, so in this case, only look at 4 of the 5 elements in the list
^^ deoac 09:14
oh, and it looks to me that the '-s' should be at the start of an element 09:25
if that is true, then this is better:
m: say so <alice -bob cat -soup dog>.first: *.starts-with('-s')
camelia True
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deoac Thank you lizmat.  That's much better than my manual loop. 13:17
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