RE: My favorite looping mechanism in Perl is:

[Simplicus]

foreach is cool, but without while you couldn't say while(<FILE>), which is cool, too...
Simplicus

[BBQ]

AHA! But you CAN! One of my 1st posts (back in December) was exactly on this topic. The only reason why its not good to do a

foreach (<FILE>) { }

is because the whole FH gets thrown into memory before the iterations (or so I've been told). But, yeah, practically it wouldn't be that good...