> When perl executes a foreach loop, it creates some kind of array of all the
> iterators and then goes over them one by one. Is the current index pointer
> accessible from inside the loop? I was unable to find anything related in
> perlvar.
I think I should clarify myself a little. Here is an example:
my @lsit = qw(a b c d);
my %indexes;
my $current_index = 0;
foreach my $element (@list) {
$indexes{$element} = $current_index;
++ $current_index;
}
What I was saying above is that (as far as I understand) perl keeps its own
$current_index-like variable to track how far it is into the foreach. Is
there a way to use it inside the loop instead of $current_index, thus saving
(although negligible) incrementation operation.
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