Really simple question.

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 16:12 +0000, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> On 8 Feb 2007, at 15:35, Robert Bannocks wrote:
> > i.e. in
> >
> > foreach (@arrayname)
> > {
> >  ...do some stuff..
> > }
> >
> > other than setting a count before the loop and incrementing it each  
> > time how can I find out with in ...do some stuff...
> > how far through @arrayname I am?
> 
> The normal idiom is
> 
>     for my $i ( 0 .. $#arrayname ) {
>         # do some stuff
>     }
> 


Well the idiom for the paranoid is

        for my $i ( $[ .. $#arrayname ) 
        {
                # do some stuff
        }

but of course none of this actually answers the question - the answer is
actually "no": the provider of the list in the foreach could for
instance be a subroutine.

/J\