Find Char, from List, in String 1

[CJason]

I need to search a string and find the position of the first character found from a list. For example, something like this:

$string = "abcdef";
$pos = index($string,"b|e");

$pos should return "1" in this case because "b" comes before "e" in the string.

Is there a function that does this?

Thanks in advance!

 

[ishnid]

The special variable $-[0] holds the position of the start of the last successful match in a regular expression. You can use it like so:

my $string = 'abcdef';
if ( $string =~ /[be]/ ) {
   print "Position is: $-[0]\n";
}