On Apr 11, James Taylor said:
>How can I get the current index of an array while processing the array
>in a loop? I know I can do it with a counter type function, but I was
>curious if there was a better way of doing this.
That won't be automatic until Perl 6. Your method is fine.
>my @array = (1 .. 100);
>my $counter = 0;
>
>for (@array) {
> print "index -> $counter element -> $_\n";
> $counter++;
>}
The other approach is to use a C-style for-loop.
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