On Jul 24, Peter Fleck said:
>for $arrayref (@datedbi) {
> #do stuff
>}
>
>It didn't look right and sure enough, it should be 'foreach'.
>
>But it worked fine and that's my question - why is this working?
In Perl, 'for' and 'foreach' are the EXACT SAME THING.
for $x (@list) ...
foreach $x (@list) ...
for ($x = 0; $x < 10; $x++) ...
foreach ($x = 0; $x <= 10; $x++) ...
Each pair is identical. I never use "foreach"... it's four extra
characters, and I think "for" works in both instances just fine.
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