Bob Showalter wrote: > > Jeff Westman wrote: > > Eric Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I got it so I need a counter which sends me to a for loop instead > > > of a foreach. Thanks.. > > > > > > perlknucklehead > > > > I believe that 'for' and 'foreach' are completely > > interchangable. I remember > > reading somewhere that one was a synonym for the other. > > Yes, it's documented in perldoc perlsyn. I never write it as "foreach". But > I never use csh either.
Hi Bob. That's fair enough, as long as you have a consistent convention. I use for (EXPRESSION; EXPRESSION; EXPRESSION) and foreach (LIST) unless the list has only one element, when I use for (EXPRESSION) to alias $_ with the expression for the extent of the block. Cheers, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
