in reply to Re: Re: using split on every element in an array
in thread using split on every element in an array
Every element of an array is a named scalar variable.
Eg. $array[3] = 'something'; $var = $array[4]; etc.
You can therefore use them directly with split.
Eg.
for my $element (@array) { my @bits = split "\t", $element; #do something with the bits. }
The contents of @array will remain unmodified for further use later unless you assign something to $element.
It might be clearer to you written this way.
for my $index (0 .. $#array) { # $#array is the numer of the highest e +lement. my @bits = split "\t", $array[$index]; }
The first version is usually considered better though.
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