At 16:10 +0000 2001.11.09, Richard Smith wrote:
>This seems such an obvious operation, but the syntax
>escapes me. I have an array of up to 6 values, which I
>want to add together. I am sure there must be a
>shorthand version of this:
>
>$result = @array[0] + @array[1] + @array[2] +
>@array[3] + ...etc
In perl 5.005 and above:
$result += $_ for @array;
In perl 5.004 and previous (including MacPerl 5.2.0r4):
for (@array) {
$result += $_;
}
Note that your @array[0] syntax is not proper; it should be $array[0].
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