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

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, smasson@[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
>

(where(array))[0] will be a little bit faster, because it spares a temp 
array creation and write.

regards,
lajos