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On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Chas. Owens <chas.owens@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:15 AM, <itshardtogetone@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Members,
> > Can someone explain why the foreach loop did not iterate 10 times.
> snip
>
> > foreach (@data){
> > splice @data,0,1;
> > print "printing \@data = @data\n";
> > }
> snip
>
> Mucking about with the array being iterated over breaks the iterator.
snip
from perldoc perlsyn or http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsyn.html#Foreach-Loops
If any part of LIST is an array, "foreach" will get very confused if
you add or remove elements within the loop body, for example with
"splice". So don't do that.
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Chas. Owens
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