On Oct 17, Nandita Mullapudi said:
> I have a list of elements- and for every element in the
>list, I want to carry out an operation with the previous
>element or the next one, as the case might be, how do I tell
>perl to look at the previous element?
I'd just do something like:
my $last = undef;
for my $current (@array) {
# ...
$last = $current;
}
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