note BrowserUk <p>I said my Pascal was a long time ago:) I dug up a little info on the last Pascal compiler I used -- in a [http://www.threedee.com/jcm/psystem/|museum]! <p>For C, I think the info I dug up and posted [317541|here] is reasonably definitive. With deference to [MADuran]'s [317557|info] on C99 which I've never encountered, there is no definitive statement on the state of a C for loop variable after a for loop, simply because there is nothing special about a for loop variable in C. <ul><li>It is simply a variable that has a scope defined by the block in which it is declared. </li><li>It must have been declared before it can be used in the for loop. </li><li>Any modifications made to it, either by the control statements or within the for loop body, persist after the for loop terminates, and until it goes out of scope. </li><li>It remains in scope, until the block it was defined in, ends. </li></ul> <p>One all. Now lets get back to perl:) <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-171588"> <hr /> <font size=1 > <div>Examine what is said, not who speaks.</div> "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham<br /> "Think for yourself!" - [Abigail-II|Abigail] <br /> [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3181108.stm|Hooray!]<br /> </p></font> </div></div> 317444 317580