A few weeks ago I was reading a list of 'don'ts' in perl. One of the things to avoid is the following:
my $flag = 0;
foreach my $var (@somearray){
if($var eq "foo"){ $flag = 1; last;}
}
if($flag eq "1"){ &someaction;}
I do this kind of thing All The Time and I don't know a) Why is it wrong? and b) How else would I go about it?
Checking if $var is equal to "foo" might be some other, more complex, calculation or maybe a database call of some kind.
oakbox
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