----- Original Message -----
From: "Rod Za" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: perl.beginners
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 10:58 AM
Subject: Is the var recreated in a foreach loop using `my`?
> Hi,
>
> I have a doubt. If i create an array inside a foreach loop using `my`, is
this array recreated
> every time or every time the loop pass by i got a new array?
>
> e.g.:
> _BEGIN_
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use warnings;
> use strict;
> my @array1 =(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9);
> foreach(@array1){
> my @array2 = ($_,'a','b','c','d','e'); #is a new the array reated here?
or is the same array?
> print "$_ = @array2\n";
> }
Very clear answer in the docs.
perldoc perldsc
Read the section 'common mistakes', where this is discussed.
(A piece from that document, below)
Surprisingly, the following dangerous-looking construct will actually
work out fine:
for $i (1..10) {
my @array = somefunc($i);
$AoA[$i] = [EMAIL PROTECTED];
}
Chris
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