in reply to Difference between for and foreach

Using for you can initialize variable, condition check and increment the varaibles like 'C' or like some other languages. foreach is a function having in perl using you can get the array variable and you cannot initialize or condition check or increment like 'for' in a single line.

Gubs

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Re^2: Difference between for and foreach
by tirwhan (Abbot) on Sep 17, 2007 at 15:31 UTC

    Wrong. See the replies by Joost and johngg, and for practical demonstration try this one-liner

    perl -e 'foreach ($i=0;$i<10;$i++) { print $i }'

    All dogma is stupid.
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