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Read-only variable in foreach loop? References, Prototypes, and read-only values Modification of a read-only Next, a first for me And now an attempt an an explanation. perlsyn explains this well, but is going on when $path_list is the empty string (""), what your *ugly* code breaks down to is anyway, as I was saying, you ought to check if $path_list is a reference to an ARRAY, and if it's not, you ought to return one([] what I meant was, undef, or (), or maybe even @{[]}, but definetly not '', hopefullly you get the picture) instead of the empty string(""), because what happens is the same thing I demonstrate with the following one line perl -e"for my $orK(1,2,3,4) { $orK =~ s/.//g; } " which would also throw the read-only error. Why, because (1,2,3,$foo,$4) is not a data structure (an array). It is a list. The for loop implies list context. And since it is not an array, $orK, which becomes the alias for each element of the list, points to hard coded members of a list, which are read only. The following perl -e"@f=qw,1 2 3 4,;for my $orK(@f){ $orK =~ s/.//g; }" gets no read-only error. Why? cause $orK becomes an alias for each member of the list, which in this case is a reference to $f[0] which is a data structure. Its pretty much the same as perl -e"@f=qw,1 2 3 4,;for my $orK($f[0],$f[1],$f[2],$f[3]){ $orK =~ s/.//g; }" That's it. Try it out, read perlsyn again, read japhys excellent context tutorial (List is a 4 letter word, it's on his website, link to which is on his homenode). I'm done.
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