Searching an @array for index of Regex Match

[poojapo]

hi guys,

how do i search for a pattern(which is a regular expression) inside an array element and get the position of the occurence of it?

@array is the array.I am at element $array[$n].$n here is a subscript.
how do i search for pattern v*?(a reg ex)

[docsnyder]

@poojapo

Try this approach:

@array = ( "1", "2", "3", "2", "4" );

for ( $i=0 ; $i<scalar(@array) ; $i++ ) {
  printf("$i\n") if ( $array[$i] =~ m/2/ );
}

Greetz, Doc

By the way: /v*?/ is not a lucky pattern as it always matches!

[KevinADC]

if you literally mean look for the pattern v*? in @array:

for (@array) {
   print "$_\n" if  /\Qv*?\E/;
}

or:

if (grep {/\Qv*?\E/ } @array) {
   print "Found 'v*?' in \@array\n";
}