[oak perl] until loop(s)

David Alban extasia at gmail.com
Mon Mar 28 14:09:14 PST 2005


Aieeeeee!

Testing, boys and girls.  Testing will save your behind.

(Thanks, Steve.)

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:49:11 -0800, Steve Fink <sfink at reactrix.com> wrote:

> >   my $counter;
> >   for $counter ( 1..5 ) {
> >     ...
> >   }
> >
> > if $counter was needed after the loop.
> 
> But not if the __value__ is needed after the loop, because 'for' will
> implicitly localize the value.
> 
>    my $counter = 10;
>    for $counter (1..5) {
>    }
>    print $counter;
> 
> will print 10.

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