Re: fastest way to find the first non-zero value in an array

On Apr 8, 3:04 am, smas...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to find the first non-zero value of an array. Is there a faster
> way to do this than with the "where" command: (where(array ne 0))[0]
> "Where" will look for all non-zero values and I only need the first
> one. It would be great if I could stop "where" in its search process
> as soon as it found one element...
>
> sebastien

Wow - I'd be interested in knowing how slow 'where' is.  Are we
talking the difference between 0.01 seconds and 0.05 seconds?  Or even
the difference between 1 and 5 seconds?  Time is money, but at what
point does our 'need for speed' end?