>>>>> "Fei" == Fei Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Fei> foreach (@test){
Fei>  my $n= shift (@test);

The foreach loop walks over the array "live".  If you modify the array
inside the loop, the results are definite, but often unexpected.

Maybe you want instead:

        while (@test) { # do until @test is empty
                my $n = shift @test;
                ...
        }

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