On 10-12-03 11:30 AM, Roche, Johnny wrote:
To my understanding, "$_" is the default input of the current running
script/program, hence, if you overwrite $_ in an inner loop, it will overwrite $_ for the
whole process. If you do not want to overwrite it, you'll need to assign $_ to a scalar
before entering the loop that will overwrite $_.
Does that help or am I way off base?
Except for foreach loops. Then it localizes $_. See `perldoc -f local`
for details.
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