[Pdx-pm] for vs foreach question

[Jeff Zucker]

Thomas Keller wrote:

> Hi all,
> I thought the "foreach" keyword was a synonym for the "for" keyword. 
> So I'm perplexed why the following loops don't give the same output:


First, I think if you add "each" to the "for" in the first loop, it will 
continue to work and if you take off "each" from the second loop, it 
will continue to not work.  The use of "for" or "foreach" is not 
relevant to your problem.

Here is the second loop written correctly with more legible variable 
names so you can see what's going on:

my $table = $aref;
for my $row (@$table) {
    foreach my $column (@$row) {
        print $column, " ";
    }
    print "\n";
}

Write back if that doesn't clarify things for you.

-- 
Jeff