Really simple question.

Jonathan Stowe jns at gellyfish.com
Thu Feb 8 18:25:07 GMT 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 18:01 +0000, Daniel Barlow wrote:
> Andy Armstrong wrote:
> > The normal idiom is
> > 
> >    for my $i ( 0 .. $#arrayname ) {
> >        # do some stuff
> >    }
> > 
> > You can use C style for loops if you must
> > 
> >    for ( my $i = 0; $i < @arrayname; $i++ ) {
> >        # do some stuff
> >    }
> > 
> > It's generally neither necessary or desirable though.
> 
> Well, and I learn something new every day.  Muttering about generating
> big temporary arrays, off I go to perlop(1) and find it now says

<doesn't do that any more>

I think it has been like that for nearly nine years now :-O

/J\


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