How to find the position of a string in a array?

[vibhakhushi]

I have an array

@myarray = ("father","mother","sister","brother");

How to find the position of "sister" in @myarray

I didn't get any built in functions to do this. I'm a newbie in Perl. Please suggest some good tutorial.

[toolic]

To find the index of an element in an array, use List::MoreUtils

use strict;
use warnings;
use List::MoreUtils qw(first_index);

my @myarray = ("father","mother","sister","brother");
printf "item with index %i in list is sister", first_index { $_ eq 'sister' } @myarray;

__END__

item with index 2 in list is sister

[vibhakhushi]

Thank you toolic. It worked like charm to me :)