Here's another "What's a quick and real neat way of...." type question

[Piers Harding]

how about this:

while (my ($a, $b) = (shift @a, shift @b)){

  do the funky thing with $a and $b ....

}

Cheers.


On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:06:14PM +1300, Enkidu wrote:
> Say you have two arrays @a and @b.
> 
> You can loop through one array by using foreach:
> 
> for my $file (@a) {
> 	<do something with $file> ; 
> }
>  
> Is there a neat way of looping through *both arrays* at the same time?
> Something like:
> 
> for my ($file, $desc) (@a, @b) {
> 	<do something with $file, $desc> ;
> } 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Cliff
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> 
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