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How to find the index of a null value in a row

Tejas
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Jan 5, 2014, 2:01 AM

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How to find the index of a null value in a row	Can't Post

my $non_nulls = grep { $_ ne '' } @$row;

I tried finding which row has null field
But how to find the index which has null value
244720457|01-NOV-2013|391|815177629513|-1.99|USD||1|8
8001461415|01-NOV-2013|391|815194715513|-1.99|USD||1|8
1282201|01-NOV-2013|391|815216860513|-1.65|USD||1|8

Here Index 6 has null value,How to get it using the code abve

FishMonger
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Jan 5, 2014, 8:15 AM

Post #2 of 3 (1013 views)

Re: [Tejas] How to find the index of a null value in a row [In reply to]	Can't Post

See the indexes() function in List::MoreUtils.
http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/List-MoreUtils-0.33/lib/List/MoreUtils.pm

Laurent_R
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Jan 6, 2014, 11:56 AM

Post #3 of 3 (995 views)

Re: [Tejas] How to find the index of a null value in a row [In reply to]	Can't Post

Please provide more of your code.

Code

@$row

is probably not doing what you expect.

Additionally:

Code

$non_nulls = grep ...

is most probably wrong: the grep function returns an array. If you evaluate in in scalar constext, you will get the number of elements that satisfied the grep condition.

The code that does what you probably want to do would be something like this:

Code

my @non_nulls = grep { $_ ne '' } split /\|/, $row;

But of course, that will populate the @non_nulls array with the non null values, this will not tell you that Index 6 has a null value.

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